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O acompanhamento musical das práticas esportivas é uma característica marcante dos jogos na Grécia antiga, seja nos treinamentos, seja nas competições. Este acompanhamento se dava com instrumentos de sopro, especificamente o aulos e a... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyIconographyOrganologyAncient Sports/Athletics
In epoca greca e romana, i giochi rappresentavano una componente fondamentale della vita privata di adulti e bambini appartenenti ai ceti più bassi, così come a quelli più alti. Dei giochi atletici, tra cui i celeberrimi giochi olimpici,... more
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      Board GamesRoman board gamesAncient Greek Games
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      Ancient board gamesAncient Greek GamesAncient Toys and Games
Board games are often used as a plot motif in modern genre fiction, especially in detective and adventure stories. In these types of narrative a well-known pattern of storytelling or literary structure (e.g. the treasure hunt, the... more
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      History of ChessAncient Egyptian LiteratureBoard GamesAncient board games
Il est évident, en observant uniquement les Jeux olympiques et la fascination de certains empereurs à leur égard, que la venue de Rome en Grèce n’a pas entraîné la disparition des concours. Au contraire, ces jeux, que les Hellènes... more
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      Roman EmpireAncient Greece (History)ItalyRoman imperial cult
In the beginning of the first Olympian ode, water is ‘most excellent’ rather than ‘the best thing in the universe’, the superlative being absolute, not relative. The sun, heavenly sign of Olympia, excels over water and gold, elements... more
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      Greek Lyric PoetryCorinthPindarOlympia
Κατάλογος έκθεσης επιγραφών του Επιγραφικού Μουσείου. Οι «Γιορτές και αγώνες στην Αθήνα μέσα από επιγραφικές μαρτυρίες» αποτέλεσαν το θέμα ενός μεταπτυχιακού σεμιναρίου Αρχαίας Ιστορίας που έλαβε χώρα στο Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας... more
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      Greek EpigraphyAncient greek festivalsAncient Greek Games
C omme vous en avez l'habitude maintenant, vous allez découvrir grâce à ce nouveau numéro d'Archéothéma, combien l'Antiquité classique nous apparaît à la fois si familière et si diff érente. Par l'étude des textes et l'analyse des... more
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      ArchaeologyRoman HistoryHistory of Childhood and YouthHistory of Childhood
La cité des spectacles permanents. Organisation et organisateurs des concours civiques dans l'Athènes hellénistique et impériale (SoPHAU Prize Award 2015) The place on earth where “spectacles are permanently held”: thus did the traveler... more
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      Greek EpigraphyAncient Sports/AthleticsAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Epigraphy
In 2000-2001, during a salvage excavation of the IV th Ephorate of Antiquities at Argos, a valuable and unexpected discovery came to light. Some 136 inscribed bronze plaques of the first decades of the 4 th century BC were found. They... more
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      Greek EpigraphyAncient numismatics (Archaeology)FestivalsAncient Greek Games
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyGame studiesGreek Archaeology
Warriors @ Play: Proceedings of the International Congress held at the Museum of History and Archaeology of Elche, 28th May 2021 https://amzn.eu/d/bNfVIDu
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      Ancient HistoryClassical ArchaeologyGreek LiteratureCeltic Archaeology
Επιμέλεια Έκδοσης: Νίκος Δ. Καράμπελας & Michael Stork Διόρθωση Κειμένων: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης Νόμισμα εξωφύλλου και σελίδας τίτλου: Οπισθότυπος χάλκινου νομίσματος της Νικόπολης, εποχής Αυγούστου, με πυργοστεφή προτομή της τύχης της πόλης.... more
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      Roman HistoryAthleticsAncient Olympic GamesAcarnania
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      Ancient Greek EpigraphyPhanagoriaAncient Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea ShoreAncient Greek Games
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyGame studiesGreek Archaeology
Intellectual puzzles have a tendency to intermix and accumulate in miscellaneous collections, as happens in present-day puzzle magazines. This phenomenon is already observable in ancient compilations (cf. Palatine Anthology, book 14) and... more
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      AristophanesAthenaeusRiddlesAristophanes Frogs
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyAncient Greek GamesAncient Greek and Roman Toys
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      Women's StudiesSports HistoryRoman EmpireHellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
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      Classical ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyGreek colonies in Magna GraeciaHistory of Toys and Play
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      Ancient Greek ReligionRites of PassageAncient Greek Games
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      Funerary ArchaeologyGreek ArchaeologyAncient Greek ReligionRitual Zooarchaeology
Teracotta figurines are common among the grave goods accompanying burials in Corinth form the end of the Classical period and almost throughout Hellenistic times. A striking example is also provided by a terracotta group of two young... more
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      Terracotta FigurinesAncient Greek GamesBurial Practices In Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Journée d'étude internationale, Paris, INHA, 27 novembre 2021
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      HistoryPhilosophyAthleticsAncient Greek History
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      Etruscan ArchaeologySport in AntiquityRoman gamesRoman Archaeology
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      Classical ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyAncient Greek ToysAncient Greek Games
L' ancrage de nos équipes à Apollonia du Pont repose désormais intégralement sur le support financier accordé par le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères en raison de l' achèvement du programme ANR Pont-Euxin dont les derniers crédits ont... more
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      Anatolian StudiesEpigraphy (Archaeology)Anatolian HistoryGreek Epigraphy
In Ancient Greece, the child’s game ephedrismos (piggyback) is well known as a sort of blind man’s bluff. According to literary sources and dictionaries such as Julius Pollux’ Onomasticon , a young boy rides a friend who carries him... more
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      ArtPerformance StudiesDancingAncient Sports/Athletics
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyGreek Archaeology
The Paestan vase-painting of Zeus on a see-saw (from an unidentified mythological comedy) represents a type of comic scene known in ancient Greek theatre: erotic flirtation between two personages (an aspiring lover and his ladylove) is... more
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      Greek ComedyParodyAncient Greek ComedySouth Italian vase-painting
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      EnigmaAcrosticsAncient Greek GamesAncient Greek and Roman Toys
Chair : Fabio Spadini (Fribourg) 9h00 Ulrich Schädler (Fribourg) Games for the dead : boardgames in tombs 9h45 Stine Schierup (Copenhagen) Boardgames in the National Museum, Copenhagen Chair : Hanna Ammar (Fribourg) 11h00 Barbara Carè... more
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      Archaeology of Southern ItalyCultural PatrimonyAncient board gamesFolklore, Anthropology, Aesthetics, Theories of Play, Games, and Humor, Popular Culture, History of Media and Technology, Narrative Theory, Informal Networks
Platon, à l'occasion des trois réfutations de l'impiété insérées dans le livre X des Lois, fait de la justice la clef de voûte d'un ordre universel, placé sous l'égide d'un intellect divin. Il enrichit pour ce faire le modèle... more
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      HomerPresocratic PhilosophyPlatoPastoral Theology