You're going to be. So, The Hello, I'm Ryan Stitt, and welcome back to the History of Ancient Greece.

Today we're going to do another special guest episode.

As many of you may know, last November, 2018, I spoke on a panel and gave a public talk at the Sound Education

Conference at Harvard Divinity School. Well, while I was in Boston, for the first time actually,

I used the opportunity to see the new daily life in ancient Greece. for the Not only that, but Dr. Phoebe Segal, who is the Mary Bryce Comstock, curator for Greek and Roman art at the museum, agreed to give me a one-on-one tour of the exhibit and to allow me to record our conversation while doing it. Unfortunately, my airplane landed about an hour later than was expected, and so we only had about an hour to squeeze the entire tour in, which as you can imagine, you just can't do and still see everything adequately.

So I made the decision to cut out a few of the sections and focus more on the others.

Unfortunately, this meant that the sections on war and athletics were excluded.

Those were chosen to be skipped by me for the sake of on were the sections on death and remembrance, women in marriage, family and children,

beautification and dress, medicine, artisans, agriculture, and commerce.

These all were topics that I had recently done episodes on, and so it was the perfect compliment on the heels of the cultural tour of the 5th century BC that the podcast had embarked on over the last year and a half.

Generally speaking, I had requested beforehand to be shown objects

that detail women's life in the home, such as images on vases, woolworking tools, cosmetics,

perfume jars, and mirrors. Objects that detail what it was like to be a young boy or girl,

such as images on vases, bottles, rattles, toys,

and recreational sports.

Objects that deal with what Greek homes were like.

So again, images on vases, furniture, cooking, and eating utensils, and clothes.

Objects are images that deal with marriage rituals and how the Greeks coped with death.

And finally, images or objects associated with life on the farm or life at work in industry and commerce.

And Phoebe did an amazing job at guiding me right to those objects and providing tons of useful information.

It also should be noted that this guided tour took place during normal business hours, so there

were some background noises at certain times. And this also was my first attempt at recording Incit 2 and not from behind a laptop.

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