7. Study Questions (23/24) Copy
For the remaining sessinos, try to write your answers first and then compare with the answers provided below.
The Romans would have been attracted to the hot springs, useful for the building of a bath complex.
There was already a Celtic shrine there to the goddess Sulis. Minerva was felt to be sufficiently similar in attributes for the two to be conflated into a single hybrid deity.
They were offerings to gods (a concrete form of prayer, like a sacrifice). At Aquae Sulis, there were found a number of curse tablets.
