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Ancient history and lit, photos of my cats. Writer, reader, fantasy, sci-fi, 🏳️‍🌈Ally, No🚫GenAI content. Lawyer by day. Probably followed you for mentioning reading, history, or writing in your profile. "Armchair Classicist: The Page" on FB
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/1 📚💙 #BookRecs Pretty relevant time to give Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” a read. In this alternative historical fiction novel, Charles Lindbergh, a fascist running on the slogan “America First”, defeats FDR and becomes President, leading the US to enter a nonaggression pact with

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Chaucer is masquerading as a weighted blanket this afternoon #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #ChonkyCats 🐈‍⬛📷

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/1 Current #Classics read: “Athenian Religion: A History” by Robert Parker #HistBookChat Parker focuses on the evidence for the historical development and changes in Greek religion and ritual, not on the content of those beliefs or the meaning of the ritual, which results in a unique book

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True statement @soverybritish.bsky.social #Humor

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Happy Friday morning from Zora. Hope everyone has a great end to their week. #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈📷

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The events that occur after the Iliad but before the Fall of Troy - Achilles v. Memnon, Achilles v. Penthesilea, and the others - receive far less attention than they deserve. Loeb put out a highly readable new translation of Quintus Smyrnaeus in 2018 that I recommend. #Classics 📚💙

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1/ Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve" tells the story of the 'discovery' of Lucretius' Latin poem "On the Nature of Things" around the year 1400 and its subsequent impact on the early modern world. #Classics #HistBookChat #History #Libraries 📚💙 #AncientBlueSky

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King Croesus of Lydia - Thread 9 of 10 Post 1 of 12 - Thread 9 Last time, we talked about the fall of Croesus’ capital Sardis to Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire. After the fall of Sardis, Cyrus has Croesus shackled and brought to a massive pyre. #Classics #AncientBlueSky #History

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Socrates in Plato's Apology #Classics #Philosophy #AncientBlueSky

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Chaucer watching the snow. 🐈‍⬛📷 #CatsOfBlueSky #CatPhotos

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Finished "The Swerve" over the weekend. Great info about the Renaissance/Early Modern world in which Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" was rediscovered and on the consequences of that discovery for humanism and modernity. #Classics #HistBookChat #History

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Starting this cold day reading Jemisin’s “The Broken Kingdoms” with feline accompaniment. #Cats #CatPhotos #SFF 🐈‍⬛📷 📚🪐 📚💙

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Saturday morning with the #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky 🐈‍⬛📷

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Happy Valentines Day all!

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Photo from two years ago that popped up on my memories today. Zora (right) was just shy of a year old when this was taken. She's as long as Chaucer now but definitely lacks his bulk. #CatsOfBlueSky #CatPhotos 🐈📷

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For any other collectors of small press/limited edition fine books out there, Suntup Editions announced their newest printing, Treasure Island, today: suntup.press/treasure-isl... #SmallPress #Collector 📚💙

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Slow start to the workday. Continuing to read Tad Williams' "The Dragonbone Chair" while purralegal Zora naps until new work comes in. #Reading #CatPhotos #Fantasy 📚💙 🐈📷 📚🪐

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Harvested from facebook. My reaction was loud enough to startle Chaucer. #meme #musk #elon #humor

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"I'm ready for my close up." Still one of my favorite photos of Chaucer. #Chonky #CatsOfBlueSky #Cats 🐈📷

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