Tristan Hughes

We've got some interesting kind of floral patterns and trees either side.

But what I also love, you can see the pupil of his eye and you can also see like hair as well.

So does that reveal more about the actual figure?

I mean, I haven't seen any other scene like this in any Greek wall painting or Roman wall painting or anything like it.

But talking about paint itself, I mean, so how was this actually created?

Do we know about that?

Okay, the big question.

So we've got this beautiful scene here found in a tomb.

What do we think this scene represents?

But the diver was not the only image found in this tomb.

The symposium was the drinking party of ancient Greek culture.

Guests would recline on couches, listen to music, discuss politics and philosophy, drink wine out of rounded cups called kailikes.

One of the men shown reclining at the banquet is engaged in a drinking game called kotobos, where you threw the dregs of wine out of your cup towards a target elsewhere in the room and

Another figure plays the lyre.

Another is a cup-bearer.

Very rarely do we see humans depicted in Greek wall paintings, and these frescoes speak to an influence from the neighbouring Etruscans, the most powerful Italian people at the beginning of the 5th century BC.

So this could actually be showing the meetings that the Greeks who were here in southern Italy were having with other Italian peoples at that time.

That's extraordinary.

These stunning wall paintings from the Tomb of the Diver are some of the most beautiful from anywhere in the Greek world, showing just how prosperous Pestum had become by the 5th century BC and how prominent a place it was.

But nothing lasts forever.