Announcer: This is a Getty Podcast.
Zoe Goldman: Have you ever wondered how a snake bracelet
celebrates her favorite holiday?
Snake: Everything is DIVINE at a party.
The gods walked among us on those nights, I’m sure of it!
Goldman: Or what Athena’s owl thinks about the
Greek marketplace?
Owl: It was at the agora where a vendor cut into
me just to make sure I was really made out of silver.
Well he could’ve just asked!
Goldman: This fall, we’re launching a new family podcast
called If Objects Could Talk, where artifacts come alive to
share their side of the story.
Cat statuette: I also heard that I am some sort of diva.
A cat wears a little jewelry and suddenly you’re typecast?
Fine.
Guilty as charged!
Goldman: Each episode, you’ll hear from different
objects about everything, from how they were made:
Feet lamp: Ok, picture it: I was nothin’!
Just a ball of damp clay.
Goldman: To their role in daily rituals and routines:
Lar: Most nights I would even join the family for dinner;
I’d sit right on the table!
Goldman: To how they played with children just like you.
Astragalos: He took a deep breath.
He tossed me into the air...I twisted and turned under
the open sky and...I stuck the landing like a pro!
The
crowd went wild!
Goldman: If Objects Could Talk is coming this fall wherever
you listen to podcasts and on getty dot edu slash podcasts.