{"id":97014,"date":"2021-10-21T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=97014"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:48:02","slug":"what-games-did-romans-play","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/what-games-did-romans-play\/","title":{"rendered":"What games did Romans play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Roman children<\/b> played games similar to those we know today. They probably played <b>a variant of hopscotch, they competed in tug of war, tug of war or hide and seek<\/b>. Paper, scissors and stone were played in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> and Egypt. The boys probably played war with the use of wooden swordtails and recreated the siege of Troy, popular in ancient times. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both boys and girls had little figurines that were used to recreate the scenes. The girls had their favourite dolls: the ones from the wealthy home had well-made wax or clay dolls that moved their arms and legs; dolls for the lower layers were usually ragged. A type of volleyball was also played &#8211; <em>pilae<\/em>, which used hands and arms (usually protected against bruising).<\/p>\n<p>Board games were popular &#8211; <em>rages<\/em>, where one of them was probably very similar to the current Scrabbles. A game similar to chess (<em>latrunculi<\/em>) was also played. The board was divided into squares, and small pieces called <em>latrunculi<\/em> or <em>calculi<\/em> were used, made of wood, stone or wax. The goal of the game was to capture the opponent&#8217;s pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36606,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[117],"class_list":["post-97014","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/97014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/97014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=97014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}