Episode 15: A Look at Lydia (1.93-94)

Herodotus plays tour guide/ethnographer and gives us a glimpse of the land of Lydia and its people. But should we believe him?

How the tomb of Alyattes looks today

Some ancient Greek astragaloi (knucklebones) now in Oxford's Pitt-River Museums

Exekias' depiction of Achilles and Ajax, possibly playing pessoi