What was the Roman name for the city of Bath?
Roman Baths (Bath) legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud. The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of "Aquae Sulis" ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60–70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a
The Roman Bath play relates, as Butcher suggests, to our own mad world. But Stratiev, who died in 2000, emerges as a fascinating writer who realised that comedy is ultimately the best weapon for subverting state power". The Roman Bath The Roman Bath () is a 1974 absurdist play by Bulgarian playwright Stanislav Stratiev. A very successful production was put on for well over ten years from February 11, 1974 until the early 1990s at the Satirical Theatre in Sofia, making it the longest running production in the theatre's history. In 1984, the show was awarded with "Award of Sofia", and two years