The project is headed by Professor of Classical Studies Véronique Dasen, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
[1] The goal of project is to study the historical and anthropological dimension of games and toys in Antiquity.
A team of researchers has been put in place in order to search all available primary sources such as literature, archaeological, and iconographic material relating to games and toys in antiquity.
[2] The project is based at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in the faculty of Art and Archaeology in Classical Antiquity.
[4] The way people play evolves over time and this project intends to provide a point of reference by reconstructing this history in Ancient Greece, from the birth of the city-state, c. 800 BCE, to the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, and in the Ancient Roman world from the Republican age, c. 500 BCE, to the end of the Western Roman Empire, c. 500 CE.