Barbara Carè

Biographic Data

ID5649450
NAMEBarbara Carè
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMECarè
SIGNATURECARÈ B
AFFILIATIONSItalian School of Archaeology at Athens
ORCID0000-0002-3862-6151
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • From the astragalus to the heel

    Open AccessBarbara CarèARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2026References: 23

    The myth of Achilles’ imperfect invulnerability, according to which his heel constituted his only weak point, is one of the best-known narratives transmitted from antiquity and a striking example of how mythological paradigms continue to shape modern language. It has not only generated the widely used idiom ‘Achilles’ heel’ to denote vulnerability, but has also left a lasting imprint on medical terminology. Yet the absence of any clear evidence f…

  • Le projet Histoires d’os, un pont entre science et société autour des recherches sur les astragales

    Open AccessBarbara CarèARTICLEFrontière·s2025

    Ce document a t gnr automatiquement le 11 septembre 2025.Le texte seul est utilisable

  • Back to the Game

    Open AccessBarbara Carè, Dasen et al.ARTICLEBoard Game Studies Journal2022

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  • Pavement Designs and Game Boards from Public Spaces of Ancient Athens

    Open AccessBarbara CarèARTICLEBoard Game Studies Journal2022

    The paper aims to offer significant new additions to the record of pavements designs known from archaeological contexts in the ancient Mediterranean, giving an overview of the patterns carved on marble steeps and floors in public spaces of ancient Athens. Given the problematic interpretation of carved outlines in ancient public spaces, the contribution focuses on features and locations of these patterns in the attempt to provide identification of…

  • L’enfant et la mort dans l’Antiquité III. Le matériel associé aux tombes d’enfants

    Open AccessAlexandra Alexandridou, Gérald Barbet et al.BOOKL’enfant et la mort dans…2012Cited by: 2

    Ce volume rassemble les communications presentées à la troisième et dernière réunion scientifique organisée dans le cadre du programme « L’enfant et la mort dans l’Antiquité : des pratiques funéraires à l’identité sociale » (EMA), financé par l’Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) de novembre 2007 à novembre 2011. Les 26 contributions - rédigées en français, en italien ou en anglais - envisagent la question du matériel associé aux tombes d’enfa…