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This interdisciplinary project investigates the role of play and games in ancient societies, exploring their cultural significance from early Greek to Roman times. It aims to reconstruct the history of ludic culture and its impact on social identity and community.
Play and games were ubiquitous in antiquity, among free men and slaves, men and women, adults and children, in town and country.
Even gods played.
Ludic culture created communities from early childhood to a ripe old age.
Did these groups play together, or did they play different games, with distinct rules?
And did they play similar games to us?
This interdisciplinary project will provide the first comprehensive study of the evidence.
Written, archaeological and iconographic sources are abundant,…
UNIVERSITE DE FRIBOURG
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