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🏺 In his work "The Republic" from around 380 BC, Plato compares Socrates' opponents to "weak Petteia players, who are eventually cornered and immobilized by the more intelligent ones." Aristotle said that "a citizen without a state can be compared to an isolated piece in a game of Petteia."
🏺 From the fact that they used such metaphors we can imagine that Plato and Aristotle were big fans of Petteia (a name that translates to "pebbles"). This was a strategy board game which was highly esteemed by the intellectuals of ancient Greece, because you didn't move your pieces with the help of dice (not leaving the game to the will of fate, mind you).
🏺 Petteia was quite similar to another Roman game called Latrunculi (or Ludus Latrunculorum), equally strategic. So up to this point, we understand the rules quite well, and you can read a bit about them here:
➡️ http://www.cyningstan.com/game/63/petteia ⬅️
🏺 As for its origin, Plato claimed that it came from Egypt. In fact, the game may be even older than the Trojan War (according to Kyppo Jorma, in his book "Board Games: Throughout History and Multidimensional Spaces") which, as far as we know, took place in about 1190 BC. We suspect this because we have pottery dating from 550-500 BC that depicts Achilles and Ajax playing Petteia (see image), and Homer mentions this game in his works.
#Petteia #Polis #Greece #BoardGames #BoardGameStudies #History #Culture #Plato #Aristotle #Ludus #Ludo #Games
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Einen Überblick über das Thema und die #Sonderausgabe "Monsters, Magic, Mediality: Das Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel als Bindeglied zwischen Analog- und Digitalspielforschung" gibt's in der Einführung von @Chembael , @l17r und Tobias Unterhuber.
#gamestudies #pnpde #pnpd #ttrpg #dnd #dsa #boardgamestudies
https://paidia.de/monsters-magic-mediality-pen-and-paper-rollenspiel-bindeglied-spielforschung/ -
Das Beste kommt zum Schluss - nämlich die #Sonderausgabe "Monsters, Magic, Mediality: Das Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel als Bindeglied zwischen Analog- und Digitalspielforschung" von @Chembael , @l17r und last but not least Tobias Unterhuber!
#gamestudies #pnpde #pnp #ttrpg #ttrpg #rpg #boardgamestudies
https://paidia.de/sonderausgabe-monsters-magic-mediality/