Dice players (jogadores de dados)

Dice games go back to several millennia, for example, there is evidence of its use in Mesopotamia. Greek vases were found showing paintings of Achilles playing with Ajax, the Great, during the breaks of the Trojan War fights.

O jogo de dados remonta a vários milénios, por exemplo, há indícios do seu uso na Mesopotâmia. Foram encontrados vasos gregos com pinturas de Aquiles a jogar com Ájax, o grande, num intervalo das lutas na Guerra de Tróia.

Workshop of the Diosphos painter-'Achilles and Ajax (the greater) playing dice'-attic-(black-figure)-lekythos-ca 500 BC   Paris-Musée du Louvre (MNB 911)

Unknown-'dice players'-fresco   Pompeii-Osteria della Vie di Mercurio (VI, 10, 1, 19)

Simó Gómez Polo (1845-1880)-'dice players'-oil on canvas-1874   Barcelona-Museo National d'Art de Catalunya

Fritz Wagner (1896-1939)-'dice players'-oil on canvas   Private collection

Workshop (?) of Georges de La Tour (1593-1652)-'dice players'-oil on canvas-ca 1650   Stockton-Tees (UK)-the Preston Hall Museum