City of Bath

One of the most famous remnants of the Romans in Brittain is the City of Bath, also named Aquae Sulis. It has a temple and a baths complex. The City of Bath is located a twenty kilometers from Bristol.

The temple is the temple of Sulis Minerva. This goddes is a contraction of two godesses: a British and a Roman goddes. This way the Romans kept the Celts statified. They don't forged the Celts to take over the Roman gods, they merged them together.
The City of Bath is built on a hot water spring, which constantly provides clean and hot water. Even now, after a couple of ages, it still provides warm water. The Romans often came to the baths complex, not only to take a bath, but also to sport or read. The entrance was very cheap, so they came a couple times in a week.
In the temple of Sulis Minerva, you can see a lot of beautiful mosaics. On the floor of the temple are mosaics of gods and godesses, in the dining room you can see mosaics of food and wine. That way the mosaics showed the meaning of the room.

In the garden of the temple you can see a beautiful fish pond (not with the original Roman fish) and a lot of beautiful plants and trees. All these plants are planted as they thought it looked like.

You can still visit Aquae Sulis if you like. Then you can visit the baths complex and the temple by yourself.

 

 

The questions:

  

1.  Whats the original name of the City of Bath?
2. Why is the goddes called 'Sulis Minerva'?