Université de Fribourg

Histoire et archéologie de la culture ludique dans le monde gréco-romain

Dasen, Véronique

In: Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique, 2018, vol. 34, p. 23-50

The history and archeology of ancient play and games represents a vast field of multidisciplinary research still unexplored. This paper addresses the work in progress, raising a number of methodological questions relating to the identification of games and toys.

Université de Fribourg

Jeux de l’amour et du hasard en Grèce ancienne

Dasen, Véronique

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...

Université de Fribourg

Wax and Plaster Memories : Children in Elite and non-Elite Strategies

Dasen, Véronique

In: Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture, 2010, p. 109-145

Various strategies were adopted to preserve and honour familial memory in ancient Rome. Most famous are portraits of ancestors, "imagines maiorum", depicting office holders, which marked aristocratic habits of the late Roman Republic. Literary and archaeological sources reveal a range of alternative "imagines" in non-elite circles of later periods which may refer to these prestige objects and...

Université de Fribourg

Roman birth rites of passage revisited

Dasen, Véronique

In: Journal of Roman archaeology, 2009, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 199-214

Université de Fribourg

Magie, divination et histoire du corps

Dasen, Véronique

In: Annuaire de l'école pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Section des sciences religieuses, 2017, vol. 124, p. 121-130

Université de Fribourg

L'enfant qui ne grandit pas

Dasen, Véronique

In: Medicina nei secoli. Arte e scienza, 2006, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 431-452

Université de Fribourg

Archéologie funéraire et histoire de l'enfance dans l'Antiquité : nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles perspectives

Dasen, Véronique

In: L'Enfant et la mort dans l'Antiquité I. Nouvelles recherrches dans les nécropoles grecques. Le signalement des tombes d'enfants., 2010, p. 19-44