Roy and I spent the afternoon with Irene in the Ashmolean in the Greek rooms.
She can now spell Mediterranean, and rattle off the names of the 12 Olympian Gods.
Loved the jewellery, a lot like Indian jewellery, and still beautiful after 25 centuries.
Good replicas of Schliemann’s horde, including the famous mask of Agamemmon–“I have gazed upon the face of Agammemnon”–which we saw the original of in Athens.
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