Games for Kids

[doctorjim51]

KHAIRE MY FRIENDS,
CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THEY KNOW WHAT GAMES KIDS PLAYED IN ANCIENT GREECE? THANKS!

[PMBardunias]

I think their are vases showing hoop rolling (google images of Ganymede and hoop) and ball games (something like field hockey). The old reliable skewering lizards was a fun game too.

[hoplite14gr]

RAT member Spyros has posted a thread with links in the Ancient Civil talk section.

Kind regards

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amelaco/308790187/
Well,once more this site of mr Lahanas is being vroved most helpful and informative. You'll notice many of the games have remained almost the same
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ModernSport.htm
My parents when children used to play a game called "kotsia". The've explained to me many times how it was played but i never payed that much attention as to understan it.
OK-fresh news,while i was typing the message i asked my grant parents to explain me how it was played.
You needed a small (glass) ball and four or six small round bones from the leg of the pig. You holded the bones in one hand and with the other you threw the glass ball in the air. While this was in the air you took one of the bones from the other hand and placed it to the ground in order. Then,you catched the glass ball before it fell to the ground. The first who achieved this with all the bones won.
Then was the second phase of the game. You had put the bones in order to the ground. With the one hand you formed an arch with the two fingers and the ground. With the other hand you threw again the glass ball in the air and fedore it fell to the ground you passed one by one the bones through the arch and cought the ball again in the air. The first who completed this was the winner again. The arch was formed with the thumb and the middle finger with the index finger over the middle.
This is first hand explanation! My grandfather's sister was the champion of the village to this.
Such bones,that they took from the "fingers" of the pig, have been found in young childrens' graves together with other games.
There were also other table games.

All the above can be summarized in:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gfursin/h ... mor018.jpg
Khaire
Giannis

[doctorjim51]

EXCELLENT! I HAD NO IDEA THAT SOME OF THESE GAMES ARE THAT OLD.

KHAIRE,
JIM

[PMBardunias]

Jim, I found an old paper describing the games of Greek boys that describes quite a few. If you email me, I will return it.