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PAESTUM, ITALY - "YOUNG PEOPLE WERE [SEEN AS] THE HOPE OF SOCIETY... IN THE UNIVERSE OF ANCIENT GREECE" At the end of 2021, Tonio Hölscher, 82, published a slender book titled The Swimmer of Paestum, in which he disassociates the fresco from symbolism. Rather, he proposes that the image simply depicts a real scene: a young man jumping into water. “It’s a book that is partly academic, but also designed for a wide audience, with attention to the emotion that paintings can arouse.” Has the mystery behind the fresco in the Tomb of the Diver been solved? | El Pais