Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)
@armchairclassicist.bsky.social
Ancient history and lit, photos of my cats. Writer, reader, fantasy, sci-fi, 🏳️🌈Ally, No🚫GenAI content. Lawyer by day.
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"Armchair Classicist: The Page" on FB
Probably followed you for mentioning reading, history, or writing in your profile.
"Armchair Classicist: The Page" on FB
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One of my posts earlier this week has been shared 500+ times over the past few days. So if you're looking at the page for the first time, here's a pin status explaining what this page is:
I am not a professional Classicist or historian. I am an enthusiastic amateur who works by day as a lawyer
One of my posts earlier this week has been shared 500+ times over the past few days. So if you're looking at the page for the first time, here's a pin status explaining what this page is:
I am not a professional Classicist or historian. I am an enthusiastic amateur who works by day as a lawyer
Watching the first season of ER on HBO and I swear Noah Wylie looks like he's 13.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Watching the first season of ER on HBO and I swear Noah Wylie looks like he's 13.
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Afternoon:
🖼️ Catherine Nolin
🖼️ Catherine Nolin
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Afternoon:
🖼️ Catherine Nolin
🖼️ 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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November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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Sunday reading: The Kalevala. Compiled in the 19th century poem that incorporates much of the folklore of the Finnish people.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sunday reading: The Kalevala. Compiled in the 19th century poem that incorporates much of the folklore of the Finnish people.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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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
On the 22nd of each lunar month, it prowled villages, luring house cats into rivers, ... 1/2
#folklore #caturday
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“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
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
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“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
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
"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.
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"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.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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
#Thanksgiving #Classics #Family
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
#Thanksgiving #Classics #Family
Fresco of Atalanta and Meleager from Pompeii:
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Fresco of Atalanta and Meleager from Pompeii:
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
By ArchaiOptix - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Learned today that a "haut-boy" is actually an old name for an oboe.
[insert obvious joke]
[insert obvious joke]
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Learned today that a "haut-boy" is actually an old name for an oboe.
[insert obvious joke]
[insert obvious joke]
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
