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Greek Myth Comix
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Explaining Ancient Greek Myth and Literature, one panel at a time 🤟
And now Greek Myth and Roman History Chickens. Because.
#ClassicsTober
Illustrator & Secondary schl teacher✨CA Innovative Pedagogy Award, WC Creative Classicist Award✨ ✍️ lejenksbrown
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A craft project for the end of this year:
Sisyphus and Rock Advent Calendar
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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This comic strip can also be viewed as a video on the YouTube channel (with my wonderful husband providing the voice of PtY), downloaded as pocket-money PDF, or saved for free from the main site. Have a great, safe and spooky time tonight!
An ancient ghost story part 1 An ancient ghost story part 2
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The next day the body was bruised at the public expense, and the ghost never more disturbed the peace of the house. Pliny ends the letter by asking Sura to think again whether he believes in ghosts - to help him make a decision on the matter himself! The end.
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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They find.:. …a body!
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Athenodorus marked the place the ghost vanished with some leaves, and went to bed. In the morning, he called for the magistrates and asked to have that spot dug up.
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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So Athenodorus followed it into the house, until it suddenly disappeared.
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The ghost rattled its chains over his head as he wrote
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Athenodorus told the ghost to wait, and went back to writing.
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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The ghost appeared
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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He did some writing so he wouldn’t just imagine phenomena. But he heard the clanking late in the night, until…
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The philosopher Athenodorus came to Athens where the house was, saw it was cheap, decided there must be a reason, and hired it. He stayed up late to see whether the story was real for himself.
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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There was a haunted house in Athens where the noise of clanking fetters could be heard, and it drove everyone who lived in the house mad. The house remained empty…
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Happy Halloween! 👻
Time to reshare an Ancient Ghost Story: the story of Athenodorus’ Ghost, recorded in Pliny the Younger’s letters… (and the inspiration for Marley in Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’)
An ancient ghost story - slide 1 - Pliny the Younger’s writes to Sura to ask him whether he believes in ghosts…
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#ClassicsTober25 27: ERINYES
Drawing of the Erinyes by Greek Myth Comix. Text: ‘The Furies pursue those whom have committed murder and act as agents of Fate t exactly revenge.’ A poster about the agates and other agents of Fate like the Erinyes, by Greek Myth Comix
October 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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#classicstober25 10: HEKATE
(And tomorrow’s 11: TORCH)

Resharing the Hekate lamp I made a few years ago…
A cut-out line lamp with the shape of Hekate
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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My piece the second edition of Sing O Muse Zine is today’s @classicstober.bsky.social prompt - the Moirai - the Fates

More detailed than my usual style, and with a cool-toned colour palette to fit the tone of the zine.

#classicstober25
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Every year I do a couple of fun winter projects. Last year I started designing knitwear!
Pleased to officially announce the
CLASSICS NERDS ‘25 collection:
GORGONEION
October 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 4: SHROUD
Chron the Ferryman is in his boat in the underworld, looking impatient, with impatient souls standing near him. A soul on the shore is frantically playing with his shroud, looking for his coin for the fare. He says ‘why don’t these shrouds have *pockets*?’ Greek Myth Comix
October 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 3: Graiai

Persis (Περσις, “Destroyer”)
Deino (Δεινώ “dread”, the dreadful anticipation of horror)
“saffron-robed” Enyo (Ἐνυώ “horror” the “waster of cities” 
and sometimes Pemphredo (Πεμφρηδώ “alarm”)
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25 3: Graiai Aeschylus describes them as swan-like, like Sirens, which seems fitting as personifications as the white foam of the sea. Persis (Περσις, “Destroyer”) Deino (Δεινώ “dread”, the dreadful anticipation of horror) “saffron-robed” Enyo (Ἐνυώ “horror” the “waster of cities”  and sometimes Pemphredo (Πεμφρηδώ “alarm”)
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Excerpt from The Tragedy of Odysseus: 5-8/8
to take the Queen and crown but then the boy grew up and ordered them around like he'd not dared before - and so they made a plan to make him disappear. The Queen would have to choose from them to be the King without him for the role. And he would have escaped if there had not been one - a stranger so they say - who bumbled yesterday into the Palace and said that a ship had come - Odysseus he said - so out the Suitors fled to check the coast all round - Telemachus they found! ODYSSEUS: Oh NO! EUMAEUS: [suddenly suspicious ] In fact, when did you come here? Just today? [He realises. ] You scoundrel, was it you?! [A wailing cry comes from inside the palace. PENELOPE staggers through the door, bloody, weeping. ] PENELOPE: My son! My son! My boy! EUMAEUS: I fear that all is lost! PENELOPE: He's dead, there, on the throne! They left him there, those men a Kingly parody! ODYSSEUS: I fear it's due to me! [PENELOPE straightens, wipes her eyes. She walks back into the place more sedately than she left. ] EUMAEUS: [threateningly to ODYSSEUS] It's true? You gave them news? Odysseus was home? You lied to earn some bread? You cost the prince his life! ODYSSEUS: I did! But not to earn a crust or riches, or a bed - I am Odysseus! But humbled, in a state abandoned by the gods for my decisions ill. I'm not the man I was! But I did not intend Telemachus to pay! Oh gods! EUMAEUS: That's right, you pray, before I cut you down! You get him killed, and then you falsely call yourself the King! ODYSSEUS: I have the scar! You see it? It is I! EUMAEUS: [grabbing ODYSSEUS round the neck] I see the scar, and now I'll scar your throat as well! [Another scream interrupts them from the palace - they freeze. This time it is EURYCLEIA, who runs from the door and sinks to her knees. / Read the full tragedy in YOU ARE ODYSSEUS YOU ARE ODYSSEUS Homer L Jenkinson-Brown
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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For #nationalpoetryday - one of the 51 endings of You Are Odysseus is written in the form of an Ancient Greek tragedy. Here’s an excerpt:
1-4/8
Excerpt from THE TRAGEDY OF ODYSSEUS, You Are Odysseus by L Jenkinson-Brown Excerpt from THE TRAGEDY OF ODYSSEUS You Are Odysseus, L Jenkinson-Brown ODYSSEUS HAS ARRIVED HOME TOO LATE. ATHENE HAS FORSAKEN HIM. ODYSSEUS: [dressed in clothes that are not his own, he enters from the countryside ] Here now I stand alone before my home once more I thought to get some help - the Swineherd loyal, my aim - but Suitors and their slaves did thwart me, til the night that forced me rough to sleep, until the blessed day that brought the sun again and cheered me on my quest to win back home and wife and son - Telemachus. My long-lost son, my heir. I hope once more to be Odysseus again. [He walks, like a man in hiding, round to the other side of the palace. EUMAEUS enters, also from the countryside, but from a slightly different origin. He is in disarray. ] EUMAEUS: Oh woe, oh woe is me! The young prince - woe is me, is us, is all of us! The young prince has been caught! Telemachus, the Prince, he came to stay with me escaping his own men - the crew aboard his ship the Suitors had cajoled and paid - they to betray their master, drop him off into the Suitor's trap. He came to me instead, alighting from his ship before they'd come to port, to hide... ODYSSEUS: [to himself, aside ] Can it be true - Eumaeus! My old friend! The swine-herd of my youth! And I am sure I heard Telemachus, that name fall from his lips just now! I must go ask his news. [ODYSSEUS shouts as he goes over to EUMAEUS in a parody of an ignorant visitor / What ho! Hello! You there! Did I hear you just now speak of Telemachus the young prince hereabouts? The son of that old King Odysseus, long-lost, and Queen Penelope? Where is he? Is he here? EUMAEUS: [too into his grief to look at the stranger who speaks to him. / I fear not, stranger, now the Suitors have him - he may never more be seen! ODYSSEUS: Your words stoke fear in me. My heart is in my throat. Is this the Suitors' plan? EUMAEUS: I fear it will be so - the Suitors waited long
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober25
Days 1 and 2: Hypnos and Thanatos
(Cheating a bit with oldies because I love them)
Chicken Thanatos, carrying Sarpeckdon Chicken Hypnos carrying Sarpeckdon
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Even more incidentally, you can experience Odysseus’ nekyia for yourself in my book YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, a choose-your-own-path retelling of The Odyssey, out now!

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YOU ARE ODYSSEUS, a choose-your-own-path retelling of The Odyssey, out now!
September 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Incidentally, a Katabasis is something Odysseus did *not* do! He did a νέκυια, nekyia, “a ritual for calling on the dead”, most often used to question them about the future. In this comic from #ClassixsTober22, Aeneas is unimpressed. (Words by @csmfht.bsky.social )
A comic showing Odysseus pointing out to Aeneas his underworld ‘journey’ and Aeneas saying ‘Bro, did you even do a katabasis?!’ By Greek Myth Comix
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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A reminder that #ClassicsTober starts tomorrow on @classicstober.bsky.social and the overall theme is KATABASIS.
ClassicsTober25: Katabasis 1. Hypnos 2. Thanatos 3. Graeae 4. Shroud 5. Hermes Psychopompos 6. Moirai 7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress 8. Erebos 9. Lampades 10. Hekate 11. Torch 12. Styx 13. Empousa 14. Cocytus 15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters 16. Typhon 17. Echidna 18. Kharon 19. Shade 20. Acheron 21. Kerberos 22. Judge 23. Lamia 24. Phlegethon 25. Tartarus 26. Punishment 27. Erinyes 28. Phobos & Deimos 29. Mysteries 30. Lethe 31. Elysian Fields
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM