"Violent doodles made by children 2,000 years ago" Topic

Ancient Roman children drew gladiators, hunters on Pompeii wall

Fox News: link

Stick figure people are timeless.

A lot of Presentism moralizing in that article. Ah, well. Setting that aside, it's an interesting find. It's also interesting how geometric the stick figures are— no circles at all, just straight lines and triangles. One wonders what they were mimicking.

Parzival, it depends what they were using to draw with, and on. Sometimes straight lines are all you can easily manage.
I drew stick figures in battle myself, to the amusement of my family, but I'm not old enough to claim the Pompeii examples.

You know, if you want to raise up someone to hold their scutum high and go in with the gladius after the pilum fly, that is not a bad start

The figures were interesting, but the moralizing and supposed definitive conclusions were annoying.

Advocate: True enough, but in this case the stick figures correspond with a curvy figure that appears to be a tracing of a child's hand… or an upside down octopus… or image of C'thulhu— By Jove, we may have discovered a secret cult that triggered Vesuvius to erupt! Flee! Run away!

Some things never change.

I used to draw soldiers and the such as a small child, and I haven't turned into a serial killer….yet!

No, Herkybird, that would be the kid who was never allowed to act out violence or anger. The one kid I grew up with who served time for assault with a deadly (or anything else) was the one who was NEVER allowed to play with toy guns or army men.

That is very insightful!

Wow! Kids notice that life can be violent. What a revelation.