SOME ROMAN BOARD GAMES
Abstract
Of the many themes treated in clever mock-didactic poems, table-games was one (Ovid Trist2.485). Yet despite this, our knowledge is small and caution is always wise. What we know, weowe to Ovid,2 to Martial (14.13-18), to the so-called Laus Pisonis (P.L.M. 1.22lf.) and to one ortwo sources of lesser account. We have, too, the evidence of archaeology, and this is important.References
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Paoli, Ugo Enrico 1963. Rome: its people, life and customs, transl. R.D. Macnaughten.
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2014-08-15
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