What kind of games did kids of Pompeii play?

Answer 1

IN GENERAL

The Pompeians loved games. Horace tells of children building small houses, riding on hobbyhorses, and hitching mice to little carts. Balls, Board Games, hobbyhorses, kites, tiny models of people and animals. The Pompeians played with hoops, with pieces of metal on them, like bells, to jingle and warn people in their way.

BOYS

The boys played war-type games. They played war, and fought with wooden swords, quite fiercely. The game of "Troy" in Latin lusus Troiae, was a team game involving resisting a whole pack of kids outnumbering you, who'd try to drag you across a line. Boys walked on stilts and played games with balls. They played tic-tac-toe, and a game called "knucklebones", which is a lot like jacks, only played with bones.

GIRLS

The girls played with rags dolls and dolls of wax or clay. The rich even had dolls with jointed legs and arms. The girls played board and ball games, and occasionally lifted weights.