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...
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In: Archimède, 2019, no. 6, p. 71-212
Abstract A pluridisciplinary approach, crossing archaeological, written and iconographic sources allows us to grasp the modes of circulation of play and games in the ancient Mediterranean. This special issue opens several avenues of research on the identity issues, real or imaginary, conveyed by ancient play culture, from pharaonic Egypt to the end of Antiquity.
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In: Kernos. Revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique, 2016, vol. 29, p. 73-100
On Attic and Italiot ceramics, several skill and chance games involve young individual of both sexes in prenuptial age. The aim of the painters is not to represent a real game, allowing the reconstruction of rules. Ludic activities transpose courtship and the preparations of wedding in a virtual world. Games of skill and chance create a metaphorical space where girls are not seen as objects of...
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