I just finished a great trip with Smithsonian Journeys aboard the small ship the Aegean Odyssey: a two-week circumnavigation of the Aegean Sea. Now I’m in Athens in a little apartment trying to post a few blogs before I head off again to other internet-less quarters of the world. The trip began in Athens where I took a detour to the National Museum. Everyone knows I like the details, so here’s one, a fifth-century BCE relief of some wrestlers. It’s done in white marble, but you can see traces of the paint that used to give a much different impression. The athletes have ‘archaic’ hairdos, characterized by the rows of curls, and the expressionless faces typical of that age.