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Surprisingly, the Romans called a gladiatorial enterprise a game: in Latin, ludus.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Surprisingly, the Romans called a gladiatorial enterprise a game: in Latin, ludus.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Surprisingly, the Romans called a gladiatorial enterprise a game: in Latin, ludus.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Surprisingly, the Romans called a gladiatorial enterprise a game: in Latin, ludus.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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It was called ludus duodecim scriptorum, from the twelve scripta, or lines, which equally divided the alvevolus or table.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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This gives him a new prominence in the ludus, meaning he's usurping Crixus's role in more ways than one.
SPARTACUS: episode 8 (NSFW) hradzka 2010
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Unfamiliar classical terms such as ludus, lanista and the numerous arena fighting styles are explained at first use, and can usually be worked out from context.
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Unfamiliar classical terms such as ludus, lanista and the numerous arena fighting styles are explained at first use, and can usually be worked out from context.
Archive 2008-03-01 Carla 2008
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What the book evokes is what my Abnormal Psychology professors called "ludus," the crazy, unconsummated, passionate love that we have all felt at one point or another, usually in our teens and 20s.
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What the book evokes is what my Abnormal Psychology professors called "ludus," the crazy, unconsummated, passionate love that we have all felt at one point or another, usually in our teens and 20s.
Logophile77 commented on the word ludus
"This was the Greeks' idea of playful love, which referred to the affection between children or young lovers. We've all had a taste of it in the flirting and teasing in the early stages of a relationship. But we also live out our ludus when we sit around in a bar bantering and laughing with friends, or when we go out dancing.
Dancing with strangers may be the ultimate ludic activity, almost a playful substitute for sex itself. Social norms may frown on this kind of adult frivolity, but a little more ludus might be just what we need to spice up our love lives."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/the-ancient-greeks-6-words-for-love-and-why-knowing-them-can-change-your-life
January 15, 2018