Ultime scoperte a Pompei: i disegni dei gladiatori fatti dai bambini

Gladiators and hunters, drawn by young children with charcoal on the walls of a service courtyard in the House of the Colonnaded Dining Room on Via dell’Abbondanza in Pompeii, help us better understand childhood in ancient Roman times. As the authors write in a text published in the E-Journal of Pompeii Excavations (https://pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de..., exposure to extreme forms of violence, even among young children (estimated to be between 5 and 7 years old), does not seem to be a problem unique to our times, dominated by video games and social media. The difference is that in antiquity, the bloodshed in the arena was real, and few saw it as a “problem,” with all the possible impacts on the psycho-mental development of Pompeian children.