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29 March 2019
Greek toy horse from the 10th century BCE. The Romans made exactly the same toys.
Roman toys that children played with were called crepundia . There were popular rag, clay or wax dolls, wooden horses on wheels.
Naturally, the children also had their plays – however there are no records in the sources. Perhaps, however, there was popular a form of today’s blind man’s buff. They were also playing hide-and-seek, swinging or playing hacele.
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