Notes from a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, part 2

The Met has a ginormous selection of Greek and Roman artifacts.  What I don’t know about Greek and Roman artifacts would fill a museum, one even larger than this.  But the stuff on display is intriguing so I wade in.  Funeral urns, columns, lots of statues of soldiers and boys and ladies, all naked.  Glass cases full of cups and bowls and signet rings and necklaces and stick-pins and cutlery and weapons and plates and all manner of stuff, going on forever.  It’s a morass.
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