L E Jenks-Brown
@lejenksbrown.bsky.social
📖Author YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - out now
✏️Illustrator - GreekMythComix, Amarantus for CSCP
🏺Teacher - ClassCiv GCSE, Ancient History A Level resources
❤️Ancient Geek mini-podcast
✨CA Innovative Pedagogy Award 2022✨
💀massive nerd
she/her
✏️Illustrator - GreekMythComix, Amarantus for CSCP
🏺Teacher - ClassCiv GCSE, Ancient History A Level resources
❤️Ancient Geek mini-podcast
✨CA Innovative Pedagogy Award 2022✨
💀massive nerd
she/her
They do have the feathery bit at the bottom of their torso, but then they have wings also!
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
They do have the feathery bit at the bottom of their torso, but then they have wings also!
You Are Odysseus has passed 400 copies sold!
(That’s over 400 chunky paperbacks - I don’t have eBooks data yet)
(That’s over 400 chunky paperbacks - I don’t have eBooks data yet)
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
You Are Odysseus has passed 400 copies sold!
(That’s over 400 chunky paperbacks - I don’t have eBooks data yet)
(That’s over 400 chunky paperbacks - I don’t have eBooks data yet)
In the last two days I’ve seen two of these Cupid-looking babies with Scylla-like legs/tentacles/leaves/petals on their bottom halves. Can anyone tell me what this is?
Herculaneum/Pompeii
Herculaneum/Pompeii
October 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In the last two days I’ve seen two of these Cupid-looking babies with Scylla-like legs/tentacles/leaves/petals on their bottom halves. Can anyone tell me what this is?
Herculaneum/Pompeii
Herculaneum/Pompeii
Is anyone else seeing pictures of the White House building site and immediately thinking of this bit from Back To The Future II?
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Is anyone else seeing pictures of the White House building site and immediately thinking of this bit from Back To The Future II?
Searchlights at sunrise
October 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Searchlights at sunrise
I was so convinced I had this wrong. The Pantheon is really, really big.
October 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I was so convinced I had this wrong. The Pantheon is really, really big.
Happy pub day to MEEEEEEEEEEE
(and Odysseus)
(and Odysseus)
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy pub day to MEEEEEEEEEEE
(and Odysseus)
(and Odysseus)
Teaching students about the Roman pantheon today, one of them told me there’s a Sabrina Carpenter song called ‘Juno’. I said I’d check it out.
Seems to reference the time she was locked into a fake throne by Vulcan?
Seems to reference the time she was locked into a fake throne by Vulcan?
September 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Teaching students about the Roman pantheon today, one of them told me there’s a Sabrina Carpenter song called ‘Juno’. I said I’d check it out.
Seems to reference the time she was locked into a fake throne by Vulcan?
Seems to reference the time she was locked into a fake throne by Vulcan?
We put in (what will hopefully become) our wildlife pond six days ago, and today we found a pile of what look like dead freshwater shrimp at the bottom?
March 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We put in (what will hopefully become) our wildlife pond six days ago, and today we found a pile of what look like dead freshwater shrimp at the bottom?
So, when’s the class action lawsuit of Every Author Ever against Mark Zuckerberg starting?
March 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So, when’s the class action lawsuit of Every Author Ever against Mark Zuckerberg starting?
March 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I’ve only had a chance to scan it but the first ‘tablet’-looking image matches what someone else sent me, from here: www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/myc...
March 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’ve only had a chance to scan it but the first ‘tablet’-looking image matches what someone else sent me, from here: www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/myc...
Can anyone help me find an image of this fresco from Mycenae / the Mycenaean period? (I don’t have the context or the book referring to it, which is p.159 Mylonas, G. (1966), Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age, Princeton Uni Press)
![Athena (A-ta-na) appears in a Linear B inscription at Knossos from the Late Minoan Il-era. The form A-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja (mistress Athena) is similar with the later Homeric form. 291 She was probably the goddess ef the palace who is represented in the famous "Procession-fresco" at Knossos. 30] In a Mycenaean fresco, there is a composition of two women extending their hands towards a central figure who is covered by an enormous figure-eight shield. The central figure is the war-goddess with her palladium, or her palladium in an aniconic representation. [9]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pvub6yk7jblrwirgaqaj526b/bafkreidqclqfphpznuf3nqwbtzvaex63fawn2qax7clh45rmyybvgnfqd4@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Can anyone help me find an image of this fresco from Mycenae / the Mycenaean period? (I don’t have the context or the book referring to it, which is p.159 Mylonas, G. (1966), Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age, Princeton Uni Press)
Quite fitting naming of this product - ‘Deimos’ is the feeling I get when my kid tries the climbing frame…
March 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Quite fitting naming of this product - ‘Deimos’ is the feeling I get when my kid tries the climbing frame…
Have just discovered that Assassins Creed Valhalla’s Discovery Tour lets you
GO TO ASGARD!
Loki-obsessed 4.5yo is having a great time being a raven to fly around The World Tree and petting cats on Bifröst 🌈
GO TO ASGARD!
Loki-obsessed 4.5yo is having a great time being a raven to fly around The World Tree and petting cats on Bifröst 🌈
March 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Have just discovered that Assassins Creed Valhalla’s Discovery Tour lets you
GO TO ASGARD!
Loki-obsessed 4.5yo is having a great time being a raven to fly around The World Tree and petting cats on Bifröst 🌈
GO TO ASGARD!
Loki-obsessed 4.5yo is having a great time being a raven to fly around The World Tree and petting cats on Bifröst 🌈
4.5yo’s first ever World Book Day tomorrow!
Her current favourite book character belongs to @louiestowell.bsky.social so…
Her current favourite book character belongs to @louiestowell.bsky.social so…
March 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
4.5yo’s first ever World Book Day tomorrow!
Her current favourite book character belongs to @louiestowell.bsky.social so…
Her current favourite book character belongs to @louiestowell.bsky.social so…
Peak contemporary ‘Why is Ancient History important?’ media right here:
March 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Peak contemporary ‘Why is Ancient History important?’ media right here:
Alas, I showed my Classics class the Matt Damon Nolan ‘Odysseus’ first-look image, and they liked it. And they’re the target audience let’s face it.
At least they recognised the fresco behind him is period.
At least they recognised the fresco behind him is period.
February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Alas, I showed my Classics class the Matt Damon Nolan ‘Odysseus’ first-look image, and they liked it. And they’re the target audience let’s face it.
At least they recognised the fresco behind him is period.
At least they recognised the fresco behind him is period.
Remember the Termite Pavilion from Pestival, London Zoo and Attenborough’s ‘Life in the Undergrowth’, about 15 years ago?
Found it, magnificently collapsing and ruined with age and rain, in a Devonshire park yesterday!
Found it, magnificently collapsing and ruined with age and rain, in a Devonshire park yesterday!
February 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Remember the Termite Pavilion from Pestival, London Zoo and Attenborough’s ‘Life in the Undergrowth’, about 15 years ago?
Found it, magnificently collapsing and ruined with age and rain, in a Devonshire park yesterday!
Found it, magnificently collapsing and ruined with age and rain, in a Devonshire park yesterday!
I got an email that tells me that apparently I started a LiveJournal in 2004.
I checked, and it has precisely four entries.
Incidentally,
Happy 21st Anniversary to the time I sold a book to Rowan Atkinson 🎉
I checked, and it has precisely four entries.
Incidentally,
Happy 21st Anniversary to the time I sold a book to Rowan Atkinson 🎉
February 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I got an email that tells me that apparently I started a LiveJournal in 2004.
I checked, and it has precisely four entries.
Incidentally,
Happy 21st Anniversary to the time I sold a book to Rowan Atkinson 🎉
I checked, and it has precisely four entries.
Incidentally,
Happy 21st Anniversary to the time I sold a book to Rowan Atkinson 🎉
This is already my favourite news story of the year:
Man swallowed by whale/sea monster considers surviving inside it like Pinocchio 👌
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Man swallowed by whale/sea monster considers surviving inside it like Pinocchio 👌
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is already my favourite news story of the year:
Man swallowed by whale/sea monster considers surviving inside it like Pinocchio 👌
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Man swallowed by whale/sea monster considers surviving inside it like Pinocchio 👌
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Saw this on my kid’s walk to school this morning and almost stopped breathing:
February 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Saw this on my kid’s walk to school this morning and almost stopped breathing:
Husband told me about this story.
I’ve just spent five minutes telling him the sub-plot of Our Mutual Friend.
I’ve just spent five minutes telling him the sub-plot of Our Mutual Friend.
February 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Husband told me about this story.
I’ve just spent five minutes telling him the sub-plot of Our Mutual Friend.
I’ve just spent five minutes telling him the sub-plot of Our Mutual Friend.
Had never noticed Odysseus is actually referenced in the film, because I had yet to meet him when I was watching as a child. Like showing me as a baby a picture of my future husband.
February 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Had never noticed Odysseus is actually referenced in the film, because I had yet to meet him when I was watching as a child. Like showing me as a baby a picture of my future husband.
We got Yellow Submarine on DVD to watch with the kid.
It was my absolute favourite childhood film.
DVD has Making Of doc, where it says that the film’s story was inspired by the song… but based on the Odyssey.
Ergo, my *entire life* has basically been obsession with the Odyssey.
It was my absolute favourite childhood film.
DVD has Making Of doc, where it says that the film’s story was inspired by the song… but based on the Odyssey.
Ergo, my *entire life* has basically been obsession with the Odyssey.
February 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We got Yellow Submarine on DVD to watch with the kid.
It was my absolute favourite childhood film.
DVD has Making Of doc, where it says that the film’s story was inspired by the song… but based on the Odyssey.
Ergo, my *entire life* has basically been obsession with the Odyssey.
It was my absolute favourite childhood film.
DVD has Making Of doc, where it says that the film’s story was inspired by the song… but based on the Odyssey.
Ergo, my *entire life* has basically been obsession with the Odyssey.