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Marble relief (2nd century AD) of Roman children playing ball games: the girl at the far right is tossing a ball in the air [1] The ancient Romans had a variety of toys and games. Children used toys such as tops, marbles, wooden swords, kites, [2] whips, seesaws, dolls, chariots, and swings. Gambling and betting were popular games in ancient Rome.
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Ancient literature pertaining to Roman sexuality falls mainly into four categories: legal texts; medical texts; poetry; and political discourse. [25] Forms of expression with lower cultural cachet in antiquity—such as comedy , satire , invective , love poetry, graffiti, magic spells , inscriptions , and interior decoration—have more to say ...
Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. Booth, Alan D. 1979. "The Schooling of Slaves in First-Century Rome." Transactions of the American Philological Association 109:11–19. Bowman, Alan K., and Greg Woolf, eds. 1994. Literacy and Power in the Ancient World.
Funeral monument of a Roman midwife. In ancient Rome, childbirth was the aim of a Roman marriage. Procreation was the prime duty and expectation of a woman. [1] Childbirth also brought upon high risk to both the mother and child due to a greater chance of complications, which included infection, uterine hemorrhage, and the young age of the mothers.
The Ludi Apollinares were solemn games held annually by the ancient Romans in honor of the god Apollo. The tradition goes that at the first celebration hereof, they were suddenly invaded by the enemy, and obliged to take to their arms. A cloud of darts and arrows fell upon their enemies, and the Romans soon returned victorious to their sports.
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Ancient Roman lobster claws. Although there are a wide variety of images of lobsters throughout ancient Greece or Rome, [45] very few are anatomically accurate. The ancient Romans knew that lobsters had five arms and they had detailed information about their claws and other external features. Pliny considered them bloodless animals. [46]