Truth. #History

Zora 🐈📷 #CatsOfBlueSky

N.C. Wyeth's illustration of "Penelope Mourning" from the George Herbert Palmer translation of the Odyssey, originally published in 1929. #Odyssey #Art #myth 📚💙

#Caturday bliss with @foliosociety.bsky.social packing material. Everyone is happy on book delivery day. "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr., and Folio's new edition of Herodotus, translated by Robin Waterfield. 📚💙 🐈📷

Cat owners know

I did not enter 2026 expecting to reference both Emily Wilson and Joyce Carol Oates in the same meme, but I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. #Classics #Odyssey 📚💙

Chaucer 🐈‍⬛📷 He was hacking up hairballs everyday despite regular brushing, so I’ve been keeping his coat short this summer. Has worked well.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

For #FrescoFriday, let’s trace how #Rome systematically rewrote its early history to erase humiliating #Etruscan victories. We begin in Vulci at the François Tomb (340-330 BCE), where vivid murals depict a brutal truth Roman historians later spent centuries trying to suppress. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For your weekend reading, "Marcus Agrippa: The True Story'. Details how to order your copy in Comments below. #AncientBluesky #Agrippa

In addition to his 'Life of Alexander', Plutarch wrote other essays on the famed ruler. This quote comes from his 'On the Fortunes of Alexander." #Classics #History 📚💙

A Celebration of Female Artists Susan McKenna #Mythology Mermaid (date unlisted) by Danish artist, Malene Reynolds Laugesen (born in 1969). Watercolor, gouache, and pencil

Long girl #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈📷

Zora resting on her dedicated shelf to prepare for #Caturday tomorrow 📚💙 🐈📷

Zora capturing my mood to stat Wednesday. Can we just spend today cat lounging please?? 🐈📷

Chaucer claiming ownership of my arm. 🐈📷

In the Ming dynasty, cats were courtly art made alive. At the royal court, each feline received a name as elegant as a poem: a pure white cat was “A Piece of Jade,” a black cat with a white belly became “Black Clouds Covering Snow,” and a white cat 1/2 #caturday #history

#classics #wisdom

Double dose of cat during my morning break 🐈‍⬛📷

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The trio of felines wishes everyone a good start to the week. #CatsOfBlueSky 📚💙

This volume, "Historical Sources in Translation: The Ancient Near East" edited by Mark W. Chavalas, is primarily an anthology of historical, administrative, commercial, and diplomatic texts. If you're interested in knowing exactly what texts are covered, #history #ancient 💙📚

This ended up being our second busiest week in the 6.5 years our little two person law firm has been around. Crazy. Obviously, I have a book buying problem, so making more money is good. But at the same time, I like having spare time to read said books. 🙃

Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)@armchairclassicist.bsky.social · last mo.

My day job has gotten insanely busy over the last week and half. Apologies for the lack of posts!

My day job has gotten insanely busy over the last week and half. Apologies for the lack of posts!

Zora

This is the first in a series on "The Fathers of Greek Mythology" in honor of this weekend's "Father's Day." Acrisius was one of a pair of twins fathered by Abas, King of Argos and a descendant of both Danaus and Aegyptus. After the death of their father, 1/10 #Myth #Classics

Zora has fallen in love with this old orange toy I found buried in a Rubbermaid storage container last weekend. #Cats 🐈‍⬛📷 #CatsOfBlueSky

Chaucer as a kitten. 🐈📷

This is another of Samuel Noah Kramer's texts on the Sumerians. This one focuses almost exclusively on mythology, spiritual, and religious matters and is fairly thin relative to other books I've shared so far on the subject. #Ancient #myth 📚💙 #history

A particularly poetic description of a forest fire from the second book of Virgil's great farming poem, "Georgics", translated by Kristina Chew.