Greek children and their wheel carts on Attic Vases

This article comes from a paper presented at the annual conference organized by The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past in September 2018. It analyzes the images depicted on Attic vases produced between c. 440-370 BC, in which children play with particular toys, the wheeled carts. The study of these images gives us several leads to understand the educational values attached to these toys, depicted by the vase painters as markers of the different stages of children's development and of the acquisition of mobility.