Des jouets et des hommes. Etrurie Around the two famous mummies

Around the two famous mummies of Besançon

this study demonstrates that the Homeric slave

sous la pression de l’imaginaire

“Documents from the Ancient Near East - Epigraphy I”

1912 (30 plates)

Des jouets et des hommes. Etrurie Around the two famous mummiesFrom Antiquity to the present day, the toy is an extraordinary distillation of culture and conservatism. It reproduces the adult world through miniaturization and follows its evolutions. Through this object, the child learns by imitating his parents. However, it is more an access to play than to the reality of the "Adults: a compromise between reality and illusion, it increasingly translates today an imaginary universe, of which it is both the tool