Playful Classics

Juliette Harrisson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Birmingham Newman University, UK. Martin Lindner is Lecturer in Ancient History and Curator of the Tom Stern Collection film archive at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Luis Unceta Gómez is Lecturer in Latin Philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.

Introduction: Thinking About Playful Classics - A Beginners' Guide, Martin Lindner (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Section I: Toys and Games
1. Playing with Caesar and Cleopatra – Anticising Play Figures and Historical Thinking of (Young) Children, Anabelle Thurn (University of Education Freiburg, Germany)
2. Card Games and Antiquity in Spain, Antonio Duplá Ansuategui (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
3. Designing “Archaeologists vs Treasure Hunters” – Just Another Board Game?, Irina Vagalinska (Independent Scholar, Bulgaria) and Lyudmil Vagalinski (National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Bulgaria)

Section II: Virtual Realities
4. The Playing Field – The Study of Classical Antiquity in Video Games and the Database Project “Paizomen”, Alexander Vandewalle (University of Antwerp and Ghent University, Belgium)
5. “Let’s Analyse Ancient Greece” – Digital Game-based Learning and “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey”, Kai Matuszkiewicz (Marburg University, Germany) and Kai Ruffing (Kassel University, Germany)

Section III: Playing on Stage
6. Repraesentatio in Musica: Researches about Antiquity in French Baroque Music and its Impact on Today’s Performance Practice, Antonius Adamske (Independent Scholar, Germany)
7. “That’s Greek to Me” – Disco Life, Game-shows, and Queer Intimacies in Richard Move’s “Achilles’ Heels”, Zoa Alonso Fernández (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
8. Playing Classical Drama – “Young” Theatre Festivals and the “Non-school” of Ravenna, Martina Treu (IULM University, Milan) and non scuola (Independent Scholar, Italy)

Section IV: Immersive Antiquities
9. Toga parties – Ludic Re-enactments of a Lubricious Rome, Luis Unceta Gómez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
10. Curses, Mummies, and Colonial Style – Archaeology in the Theme Park, Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam University, Germany) and Florian Freitag (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
11. Classical Reception in Street Art Performance, Anna Socha (University of Liverpool, UK) and PichiAvo (Independent Scholar, Spain)

Section V: National Traditions
12. Forges’ Vision of the Roman Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, Pepa Castillo (La Rioja University, Spain)
13. Playing with Greek Mythology in Russian Animation, Chiara Sulprizio (Vanderbilt University, USA)
14. Playground “WeChat” – Western Classics in Chinese Social Media, Sven Günther (Changchun University, China)

Coda: The Interaction of Play and Other Receptions, Juliette Harrisson (Birmingham Newman University, UK)

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