We have dwelt numerous times on the baths, one of the most prominent features of this very bath-loving city.
While a definitive list will never be formed until everything is excavated (thus likely never), the best we have in the short term is a list compiled an article entitled "Bains et histoire urbaine: l’exemple d’Antioche de Syrie dans l’Antiquité" by Catherine SALIOU, the Professeur d’Histoire romaine, Univ. Paris 8 – FRANCE.
We reproduce here (and translate) her reckoning from the historical sources:
| Baths of: | Références | Chronological or topographical detail |
| Julius Caesar | Malalas, p. 216, l. 21-23 sqq. Dindorf = p. 163, l. 54 sqq. Thurn. | On the Acropolis |
| Agrippianon = Ampeli(n)on | Malalas, p. 222, l. 17-20 = p. 169, l. 78-81 Thurn. | At the foot of the mountain in the Vicus Aprippa |
| Tiberius | Malalas, p. 234, l. 11-12 Dindorf = p. 178, l. 45-46 Thurn. | Near to the Spring of Olympias, in the section of the city created by Tiberius' extension of the city walls (cf. Libanios Or. XI, 250, who mentions the spring of Olympias : in the northern part of the city) ; to be distinguished from « Tibérinon loutron » mentioned in the Life of Syméon Stylite the Younger, which is not at Antioch but rather at the foot of “Mont Admirable”. |
| Gaius Casar (Caligula) | Malalas, p. 243, 15-8 Dindorf = p. 184, l. 27-31 Thurn. | At the foot of the mountain |
| Ouarion (Varium) | Malalas, p. 244, l. 7 sqq. Dindorf = p. 184, l. 37 sqq. Thurn. | At the foot of the mountain, near to the river and the city walls, a construction by the Senator Varius, sent by Caligula to supervise the reconstruction of the city after an earthquake |
| Medea | Malalas, p. 263, l. 11 sqq Dindorf = p. 199, l. 52 sqq. Thurn. | Lying beside the mountain, near to the amphitheatre and the Temple of Aphrodite ; a construction of Domitian. |
| Trajan | Malalas, p. 276, l. 1 Dindorf = p. 208, l. 39 Thurn ; cf. Libanios, Or. 32, 2 (387) ; Évagre le Scholastique, HE II, 12. | In the Old City. Partly destroyed in the earthquake of AD458. |
| Hadrian | Malalas, p. 277, l. 20-278, l. 19 Dindorf = p. 209, l. 77 Thurn ; cf. P. Euphr. 1, l. 1-2 ; Évagre le Scholastique, HE II, 12. | In the Old City. Seat of the trail court of the governor in AD245. Partly destroyed in the earthquake of AD 458
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| Centènarion | Malalas, p. 282, l. 8-10 Dindorf = p. 213, l. 74 Thurn. | Restored by Marcus Aurelius (originally built before the earthquake of AD 115). |
| Commodion | Malalas, p. 283, l. 5 Dindorf = p. 215, l. 9 Thurn, cf. p. 220, l. 47, et p. 261, l. 52 Thurn. | Constructed under Commodus; facing the Sanctuary of Athéna, contiguous to the Xystos (on the « Forum of Valens ») ; transformed into the official residence of the Comes Orientes between the reign of Valens and the period of Malalas |
| Severianon, thermae Severianae | Malalas, p. 294, l. 17-19 Dindorf = p. 224, l. 30-31 ; Hier., Chron. sub anno 200 (Helm, p. 212) ; Évagre le Scholastique, HE II, 12. | Lying along the mountain in the Old City. Constructed by Septimus-Sévèrus. Partial destruction in the earthquake of AD 458.
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| Livianon | Malalas, p. 294, l. 19-p. 295, l. 5 Dindorf = p. 224, l. 36 Thurn. | In the lower part of the city. Built in the reign of Septimus Sévèrus. |
| Diocletianon | Malalas, p. 306, l. 22-p. 307, l. 1-2 Dindorf = p. 236, l. 87-88 Thurn. | Rèign of Dioclétian ; in the lower part of the city, near to the ”old hippodrome” |
| Sunklètikon | Malalas, p. 308, l. 3-5 Dindorf = p. 237, l. 15-16 Thurn. | Reign of Diocletian |
| 3 Unnamed baths | Malalas, p. 308, l. 3-5 Dindorf = p. 237, l. 15-16 Thurn. | Reign of Diocletian |
| Philipus | Malalas, p. 318, l. 4-6 Dindorf = p. 234, l. 35-36 Thurn. | Abandoned, kncoked down in the reign of Constantine, at a time when it was not being used. Site of the Golden Octagon |
| Balneum in Cerateas | Liber pontificalis 34 ; 58, 23-27 Mommsen | Kerateion |
| Datianus | Libanios, ep. 114, 5 ; 435, ; 441, 7 ; 1184, 9. | In the city and outside of the city (at the city gates); construction before November AD 355 |
| Valens | Ammien Marcellin, XXXI, 1 ; Évagre le Scholastique, HE I, 20 ; Malalas, p. 339, l. 17-18 Dindorf = p. 261, l. 68-69 Thurn. | Near the Hippodrome |
| The Imperial Palace | Théodoret de Cyr, Histoire Philothée 8 (Vie d’Aphraate), 9-10 ; Évagre le Scholastique, Histoire Ecclésiastique II, 12 | On the Island, Intact after the earthquake of 458 |
| Proculus | Libanios, ep. 852, 2. | Construction between AD 382 & 384. |
| Ellebichos
| Libanios, ep. 898, 4. | Built in 387 |
| Urbicius (et d’Eupatios ?) | Malalas, Sl. cf. Thurn, p. 316, l. *62-63. | Mentioned in the reports of an uprising between AD 484 and AD 491.
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| Olbia | Malalas, p. 397, l. 10-11 Dindorf = p. 325, l. 11 Thurn (voir aussi Excerpta de insidiis, p. 268, fr. 40 ; Jean de Nikiou, 89. 23-30). | Mentioned reports of the uprising of AD 507 ; near to the Basilica of Rufinos (on the agora). |
| Tainâdonhûs (Adonis ?) | Chronique de Jean de Nikiou (éd. Zotenberg) 90. 24-25, p. 135 trad. Charles. | Mentioned in reports of the fire of AD 525. |
| Of the Syrian Nation | Chronique de Jean de Nikiou (éd. Zotenberg) 90. 24-25, p. 135 trad. Charles | Mentioned in reports of the fire of AD 525. |
| (Demosion) | IGLS III, 786. | « Bath F » ; restored in AD 537-538.
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| Winter (« Bain d’hiver » ; « bains saisonniers » | La Vie ancienne de S. Syméon Stylite le Jeune, c. 224, l. 25 ; Évagre le Scholastique, HE VI, 8. | Near to a Basilica (?) called « Diphôtos », in a place within sight of the city ; mentioned in a report of an incident between AD 578 and AD 592 ; destruction after the earthquake of AD 588. |
Reference: http://balneorient.hypotheses.org/1332
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