Zora says that exercise is exhausting. #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈📷

I finished this short biography of one o Mesopotamia's most famous rulers over the weekend. Marc Van De Mieroop is a Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at Columbia University, and he has written a number of books. 1/8 #HistoryBooks #History #Mesopotamia 📚💙 🧵

Chaucer helps with note taking. 💙📚

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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. 📚💙 🐈📷

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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.

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 📚💙

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. 🐈📷

#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 💙📚

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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.

Socrates' response to this statement, made by Plato's s brother Glaucon early in Book II of the Republic, is the central issue for much of the early portion of Plato's dialogue. What is Justice? What is injustice? How do we know? How does a society cultivate in its youth one instead of the other?

The Glaucon who participates in the Republic dialogue was one of Plato's older brothers.

Along side Samuel Noah Kramer, the other early titan of English language translations of Sumerian literature was Thorkild Jacobsen. This collection of translated Sumerian poetry was originally published in 1987. 1/3 #Myth #Poetry #Ancient #Mesopotamia 📚💙