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In ancient Roman culture, the Latin word ''ludus'' (plural ''ludi'') has several meanings within the semantic field of "play, game, sport, training" (see also ludic).〔''Oxford Latin Dictionary'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 1985 reprint), pp. 1048–1049.〕 An elementary or primary school attended by boys and girls up to the age of 11 was a ''ludus''. ''Ludi'' were to be found throughout the city, and were run by a ''ludi magister'' (schoolmaster) who was often an educated slave or freedman. School started around six o'clock each morning and finished just after midday. Students were taught math, reading, writing, poetry, geometry and sometimes rhetoric. ''Ludus'' was also the word for a board game, examples of which include ''ludus latrunculorum'' and ''ludus duodecim scriptorum'', or a game played with knucklebones (''astragali''). Latin poetry often explores the concept of ''ludus'' as playfulness, both in the writing of poetry as a kind of play and as a field for erotic role-playing.〔Thomas N. Habinek, ''The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), pp. 5, 143, ''et passim''.〕 "Poetic play (''ludus'', ''ludere'', ''iocum'', etc.)," Michèle Lowrie observes, "denotes two related things: stylistic elegance of the Alexandrian variety and erotic poetry."〔Michèle Lowrie, ''Horace's Narrative Odes'' (Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 41.〕 ''Ludi'', always plural, were the games held in conjunction with Roman religious festivals. ==See also== * Lusus Troiae, the Troy Game 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ludus (ancient Rome)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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