Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)

Gray cat under honeycomb packing material

More zoomed out view of same cat and packing material

Chaucer with his favorite packing material.
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"Good books often remind us of our troubled world. Great books go a step further: they remind us of our humanity. And it's only our humanity that can fix the world." Jonathan Safran Foer, from his introduction to Bernard Malamud's novel "the Fixer". By Armchair Classicist the Page

I love this quote.
#Books 📚💙

Picture of a stout gray cat

Chaucer always appears with puppy dog eyes whenever it’s dinner time.
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Two large cats on a table.

Chaucer and Zora
#Cats #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky
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top text: "What's up, Sisyphus?" Below: a photo of a church with a sign that reads: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever."

Alas, I wish I could claim credit for this one, but I cannot. Found in the wild. #Myth

Only watched the first 2 eps last night. So far, the only thing I'd say aged poorly is the set design. Looks like they converted an empty floor of an office building, but if my memory is correct, that gets upgraded in subsequent seasons.

Watching the first season of ER on HBO and I swear Noah Wylie looks like he's 13.

White text over a black and white photo of the ruins at Delphi in Greece: Zeus to Hera: “You and your anger— rage away! I care nothing for that. Not even if you go plunging down to the pit of earth and sea where Cronus and Iapetus make their beds of pain, where not a ray of the Sun can warm their hearts, not a breeze, the depths of Tartarus wall them round. Not if you ventured down as far as the black abyss itself— I care nothing for you, you and your snarling anger, none in the world a meaner bitch than you.” Homer, Iliad, Book 8, beginning line 550

More from Fagles' translation of Homer's Iliad.

Here we see Zeus's frustration with Hera.

#Classics #Myth

“Fighting words, and Diomedes was torn two ways—he’d half a mind to turn the team and take him face-to-face… Three times Tydides was tempted, heart and soul, three times from the crags of Ida Zeus let loose his thunder, the Master Strategist handing down a sign to the Trojans.” Over a black and white photo of a Greek amphitheater. Homer's Iliad, Translated by Fagles, Book 9, line 189

One of Homer's description of Diomedes son of Tydeus (the meaning of 'Tydides').

From Book 9 of the Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles

#Classics #Poetry 📚💙

A painting by Catherine Nolin,which uses bright, intense colours and intricate details. The painting depicts an interior scene featuring a bright orange-red chaise longue on the left. A tabby cat is resting on the chaise longue next to a decorative pillow and a small framed picture of a person. A large, intricately detailed botanical design, resembling a tree with various colorful flowers, leaves, and birds, dominates the green background wall. A blue and white patterned vase sits on the floor to the right, beneath the tree.

Afternoon:
🖼️ Catherine Nolin

A friend asked for a pic of a bookshelf with a built in tv cabinet for some design ideas. While I had them handy thought I might as well share here as well. This is limited/rare books on top, history at the bottom.
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Cover of book: Penguin edition of The Kalevala by Elias Lonnot

Sunday reading: The Kalevala. Compiled in the 19th century poem that incorporates much of the folklore of the Finnish people.
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Two long haired cats sit side by side, one brown tortoiseshell and the other solid gray.

More #Caturday fun with Zora and Chaucer.

#CatsOfBlueSky #Cats #CatPhotos 🐈📷 #BlueskyCats

Yellow flag with a big chonky black cat and the words "Oh Lawd He Treading"

🎨 《雍親王題書堂深居圖屏·捻珠觀貓》

In ancient China, tales from the Guangyang Miscellaneous Records warned of the Yellow Demon, a monstrous, feline-like predator with a grotesque head and matted yellow fur.

On the 22nd of each lunar month, it prowled villages, luring house cats into rivers, ... 1/2
#folklore #caturday

brow tortoiseshell long hair cat lies on tile floor belly up.

More #caturday fun. Zora this time, showing off that jungle of floof.

#Cats #MaineCoon 🐈📷

😍 Adorable

A linocut print mermaid that is heading to her new home today. 🐚 #mermaid #handmade #folklore #linocut #artprint #maker

That's really cool!

We often see the gods in Greek #myth swear an oath by the waters of the River Styx. This quote from Hesiod's poem "Theogony" explains the punishments a god would endure if they broke such an oath.

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“The Suitors” by Gustave Moreau, unfinished
Moreau was a French Symbolist born in 1826 who painted many mythological scenes. This work is technically unfinished, but it still looks pretty fantastic to me. Here Moreau depicts the suitors at the house of Odysseus in Ithaca.
#Myth

Odilon Redon. The Chariot of Apollo. c. 1912 | MoMA Odilon Redon. The Chariot of Apollo. c. 1912. Oil on canvas. 39 1/4 x 29 1/2" (99.7 x 74.9 cm). Gift of The Ian Woodner Family Collection. 223.2000. Painting & Sculpture

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"The Chariot of Apollo" by Odilon Redon, A French Symbolist painter who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This painting is from MOMA. I'll post a link the comments.

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Listen to this Murray. "It is with great pleasure that I invite you to celebrate my intention to finally marry my significant mother. Must be a typo. That Oedipus never was much of a proofreader."

Chaucer trying to work-off all that Turkey
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#Cats

If you're visiting family this Thanksgiving, make sure and get a photo of the grandkids with their adoring and loving grandmother, like this example from "I, Claudius."

#Thanksgiving #Classics #Family

Fresco of Atalanta and Meleager from Pompeii:

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Annie Macdonell's translation of the Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy.