Play and Games in Classical Antiquity, Definition, Transmission, Reception, Jouer dans l'Antiquité classique : Définition, Transmission, Réception Afrique this work offers a synthesis

this work offers a synthesis of recent research on Diderot's links with the Arts and on his criteria for judging Beauty: Truth

Their formal and chromatic audacity

ancient Egypt has spoken again

populated by revolutionaries and skeletons

the author documents high stylistic diversity within the region

Play and Games in Classical Antiquity, Definition, Transmission, Reception, Jouer dans l'Antiquité classique : Définition, Transmission, Réception Afrique this work offers a synthesisThis collection of studies addresses the important question of play and play practices in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. For the first time in over a century, a group of antiquarian scholars attempts to define the field of investigation of the experience of play in the ancient world by focusing on the cultural representation of the sphere of play through textual analysis (Greek theater, archaic poetry, origin stories), iconographic and material