Play and games in classical Antiquity : definition, transmission, reception = jouer dans l'Antiquité classique : définition, transmission, reception / Veronique Dasen, Marco Vespa (éds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dasen, Véronique, editor.

Vespa, Marco, 1988- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games--Greece.

Games.

Games--Rome.

Place of Publication:

Presses universitaires de Liège 2021

Language Note:

Contributions in English or French ; summaries in English and French.

Summary:

The European Research Council project ('Locus Ludi'. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity [ERC AdG # 741520]) investigates how play and games provide a privileged access to past societal norms, values, identities, and collective imaginary. People play all over the world and throughout history, but they do not play the same games, nor do they attribute the same meaning and function to play. This pluridisciplinary volume investigates how such an important part of ancient cultures can be methodologically reconstructed. A first series of chapters based on Greek and Roman texts and vocabulary propose an emic definition of play and games. Beyond the common association of child and play (in Greek, paidia, 'play', pais, 'child', and paideia, 'education', share the same root, in Latin ludus means 'play', 'school', and 'rethorical games'), ancient views are more complex and nuanced. The boundaries between sport, dance, rites and play are fluid and differ from our modern view. Case studies show how playful practices can be defined in material culture and iconographic representations. The second part of the volume focuses on Greek and Roman ludic heritage in ancient literature with particular attention to the cultural and discursive codes according to literary genre (oniromancy, proverbs, children's rhymes, lexicography...). Close studies assess the transmission of a predominantly oral heritage in collections, lexicons and commentaries ranging from the Roman imperial period to Byzantine times (proverbs, riddles, and children?s lore). New insights are provided on crucial issues about cultural continuities and discontinuities, as well as the definition of so-called "traditional" games.

Contents:

Ancient Play and Games: in Search of a Definition / Véronique Dasen et Marco Vespa

Le jeu est-il une émotion? Enquête sur la paidia grecque / Stephen E. Kidd

Choral Dance as Play: Paizein in Greek Drama, or Body Movement as Sexual Attraction between Gender and Genre / Anton Bierl

Play, Sport, Dance, Ball Games: Categories in Motion / Mark Golden

Playing at the Festival: Aiora, a Swing Ritual / Victoria Sabetai

Les jeux poétiques d'Éros: le désir amoureux en performances musicales / Claude Calame

Sed puer est! Le langage ludique de l'amour dans la poésie romaine / Giulia Sissa

When School Means Play. Greek and Latin Lexicography and Socio-Cultural History / Christian Laes

Au commencement était la faim. Récits sur l'origine des jeux dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine / Marco Vespa

L'astragale comme symbole pondéral et monétaire / Charles Doyen

Les jetons historiés dits ± alexandrins ? : bilan et propositions / Chiara Bianchi

Polluce nella tradizione lessicografica / Renzo Tosi

The Midas Game: Performance, Intertextuality and the Poetics of Childhood / Andromache Karanika

Gloser n'est pas jouer. Les formules de jeux dans les recueils parémiographiques / Arnaud Zucker

Jouer en rêve chez Artémidore / Julien du Bouchet

Early Christian Attitudes towards Child Playing / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

From Homer to John Eugenicus: the Long Journey of Riddles through Greek and Byzantine Literatures / Simone Beta

The Search for Cultural Continuities in Studies of Modern Greek Children's Play and Games: Some Theoretical and Methodological Questions / Cleo Gougoulis

Pollux témoin des jeux : continuité, survie et réception dans la culture ludique néogrecque / Salvatore Costanza

The Meaning of "Traditional" in Play Studies / Francesca Berti

Du Rubicon à la chambre d'enfants: la réception de l'expression Alea iacta est dans la culture contemporaine des jeunes / Katarzyna Marciniak

Faire du jouet et du jeu des enfants des objets d'Histoire. Un long cheminement du XVIe au XIXe siècle / Michel Manson.

ISBN:

2-87562-401-6