Esclaves en jeux dans l’Antiquité romaine. Les pratiques ludiques du monde servile entre normes et transgression

Abstract

The practice of servile gaming constituted an overlooked element of marxist historiography. The study would involve asking the traditional standards and transgression of playful norms. The right for a slave to game is standardized by a legal framework which defined who can played with who and what games. It is to be noticed jurists wanted to hedge masters against the financial loss caused by gambling and games of chance. Far from being excluded from ludi, the slaves invented their own games specifically to themselves. As a country located at the crossroads of idle amusements and servile profession, the slavish games oscillated between tolerated and subversive practices.

Keywords

• Slavery
• games
• datatim ludere
• Saturnalia
• officium seruile
• trigon