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Tristan Hughes

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The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

And of all places, and this, so this is roughly 2,500 years old and you wouldn't believe it at first when you see it because of how much has survived.

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

What exactly can we see here?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

I'm guessing this figure right in the centre, the main character, this is the diver.

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

So this would be face down in the tomb.

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

And what other things can we see here?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

So we've got this kind of, this platform-like image here, and is there water there?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

So what are these other details?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

So does that reveal more about the actual figure?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

Do we know about that?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

Okay, the big question.

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

What do we think this scene represents?

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

The symposium was the drinking party of ancient Greek culture.

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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

The Ancients
Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy

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