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- Title
Roman rules? The introduction of board games to Britain and Ireland.
- Authors
Hall, Mark A.; Forsyth, Katherine
- Abstract
Competitive board games, played on the ground, on the floor or on wooden boards, provide entertainment, distraction and exercise for the mind -- it is hard to believe that north-west Europe was ever without them. But the authors here make a strong case that the introduction of such games was among the fruits of Roman contact, along with literacy and wine. In Britain and Ireland games were soon renamed, but belonged like children's jokes to a broad underworld of fast-moving cultural transmission, largely unseen till now.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; IRELAND; BOARD games; ROMAN antiquities in Great Britain; CELTIC antiquities; CELTS; HISTORY; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Antiquity, 2011, Vol 85, Issue 330, p1325
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00062086