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Université de Fribourg

Saltimbanques et circulation de jeux

Dasen, Véronique

In: Archimède, Dossier "Jouer dans l’Antiquité. Identité et multiculturalité", 2019, no. 6, p. 127-143

In classical antiquity, acrobats were one of the vectors of the circulation of playful objects and skills, such as juggling, tightrope walking, hooping, equilibrism and animal shows. Various fragmentary documents enable to grasp the contours of their proteiform identity and of their different activities. Designated by various terms (thaumatopoioi, thaumatourgoi, planoi, circulatores) often...