A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 215
s a curious story to the effect that the Lydiansinvented dice, knucklebones, balls, and other playthings to helpthem to pass a time of famine, by playing and eating on alternatedays.1 Draughts (7r€ovxoi) are expressly excepted from his list,and were ascribed to the fertile invention of Palamedes at…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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