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This document discusses evidence for whether women were present in Roman baths based on historical sources and archaeological evidence. While early Roman baths may have been for men only, there is evidence that some women wanted to use public baths as well. The earliest archaeological evidence from Pompeii and Herculaneum shows two separate and segregated sets of baths, suggesting women and men bathed separately. However, the document notes there is no scholarly consensus on whether and when imperial decree

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Kenneth Davis

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