There was a secret feature of the bed of Odysseus & Penelope. Penelope used it to guard against random men who kept showing up pretending to be her long absent husband.
One bedpost was a living olive tree. So, Penelope would make some remark about 'moving the bed to a new room--' and when the latest rando who had shown up didn't act surprised she knew he was phoney.
This idea of a bed with a "living bed post" haunts me daily.
How did it interface with the tesserae of their bedroom floor?
until a few hundred years ago, all floors were made of dirt and straw (and many still are)
Not everywhere. And the manor of a wealthy Greek family would have tile floors....surly?
@futurebird @alexch A megaron would have patterned concrete floors covered in carpet: https://archive.org/details/excursionsingree00diehuoft/page/n7/mode/2up
