Happy New Year
Let's celebrate the new year as the Mycenaeans would have, with drink and storytelling.
But where are the women? Were they excluded from hearing the bard sing, or relegated to the vestibule outside the main megaron, or perhaps to a gallery above? There's no archaeological evidence that says storytelling wasn't a communal activity, and Homer makes no distinction between the sexes in The Odyssey when Queen Arete and her women are present for Odysseus's account of his adventures; this is just the artist's interpretation. But it does raise interesting questions about Mycenaean social interactions.
A nice touch that the bard's outfit echoes the image of the storyteller on the Pylos frescoes.