Playful Classics: Classical Reception as a Creative Process (IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts)

This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity - an understudied research area within classical reception studies - that can shed light on current processes of construction and appropriation of the Greco-Roman world.Classical antiquity has, for many years, been sold as a product and consumed in a wide variety of forms of entertainment.As a result, games, playing and playful experiences are a privileged space for the reception of antiquity.Through the medium of games, players, performers and audiences are put into direct contact with the classical past, and encouraged to experience it in a participative, creative and subjective fashion. The chapters in this volume, written by scholars and practitioners, cover a variety of topics and cultural artefacts including toys, board games and video games, as well as immersive experiences such as museums, theme parks and toga parties.The contributors tackle contemporary ludic practices and several paper