Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Board Games!?

Of all the activities that took place at the ancient greek symposiums, I found that they played board games one of the funniest! Apparently one of the games was a dice game similar to our Parcheesi, which they played with three dice (later the romans adapted it to be played with two dice). Here's a depiction of Achilles and Ajax playing such a game:









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