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
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Hi everybody!
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I’m a Classics teacher (nearly two decades!) with English Lit, Ancient History, Latin and Drama experience.
I’m also a Classics illustrator at GreekMythComix.com (comix, infographics) and also over at laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk (illos) where I’m also writing You Are Odysseus!
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I’m a Classics teacher (nearly two decades!) with English Lit, Ancient History, Latin and Drama experience.
I’m also a Classics illustrator at GreekMythComix.com (comix, infographics) and also over at laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk (illos) where I’m also writing You Are Odysseus!
I’m getting an mp3 player for Christmas.
November 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I’m getting an mp3 player for Christmas.
Ancient Beauties ❤️
Did anyone go for a classics-themed Halloween costume this year? We did!
Let us see yours 👀
Let us see yours 👀
November 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ancient Beauties ❤️
First trick or treaters yesterday were two teenaged lads in raincoats holding their school bags open expectantly.
I laughed and told them, in teacher voice, no, come back when you’ve made an effort.
They were aggrieved.
I laughed and told them, in teacher voice, no, come back when you’ve made an effort.
They were aggrieved.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
First trick or treaters yesterday were two teenaged lads in raincoats holding their school bags open expectantly.
I laughed and told them, in teacher voice, no, come back when you’ve made an effort.
They were aggrieved.
I laughed and told them, in teacher voice, no, come back when you’ve made an effort.
They were aggrieved.
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If you've just heard me on BBC Radio 5 Live, here's the link to nominate a brilliant history teacher in the UK for the Inspiring History Teaching Awards - they can be primary/secondary/SEN etc, and don't have to be history specialists. The awards are run by HRP www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
Inspiring History Teaching Awards
Created by Historic Royal Palaces, these awards celebrate teachers who make history exciting, inclusive and meaningful. We want to recognise the impact that great teachers can make by bringing the pas...
www.hrp.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you've just heard me on BBC Radio 5 Live, here's the link to nominate a brilliant history teacher in the UK for the Inspiring History Teaching Awards - they can be primary/secondary/SEN etc, and don't have to be history specialists. The awards are run by HRP www.hrp.org.uk/schools/insp...
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?
Help, please: has anyone got a decent photo of the ivory comb from Grave Gamma, Grave Circle B at Mycenae I could have?
#ancientbluesky
#ancientbluesky
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Help, please: has anyone got a decent photo of the ivory comb from Grave Gamma, Grave Circle B at Mycenae I could have?
#ancientbluesky
#ancientbluesky
O Tempora O Mores 2: Electric Boogaloo
On his Truth Social platform on Saturday night, Trump posted a Top Gun-style AI video of himself wearing a crown and dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a military plane.
(Yes, you read that right.)
(Yes, you read that right.)
Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are melting down over "No Kings" success
Trump posted an AI video of himself dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a plane. Yes, you read that right
www.motherjones.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
O Tempora O Mores 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Today is publication day of this new exciting book by my friend and former colleague Steve Tuck!
Please spread the word and order below.
Please spread the word and order below.
October 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today is publication day of this new exciting book by my friend and former colleague Steve Tuck!
Please spread the word and order below.
Please spread the word and order below.
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YASSSS!!! After first order not going through, and second order being lost in transit, I finally have this in my hands!!! I'm so excited!!! I can't play with it until after assignment submitted... but I can put it on my desk and look at the cover!!!
@corabeth.bsky.social @lejenksbrown.bsky.social
@corabeth.bsky.social @lejenksbrown.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
YASSSS!!! After first order not going through, and second order being lost in transit, I finally have this in my hands!!! I'm so excited!!! I can't play with it until after assignment submitted... but I can put it on my desk and look at the cover!!!
@corabeth.bsky.social @lejenksbrown.bsky.social
@corabeth.bsky.social @lejenksbrown.bsky.social
Gave an impromptu storytelling of the entire Trojan war in 25 mins today really should have recorded it because it was *perfect*.
October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Gave an impromptu storytelling of the entire Trojan war in 25 mins today really should have recorded it because it was *perfect*.
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Choose your own Odyssey!
My incredibly chonky book has been out in the world for two weeks!
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS
OUT NOW! BUY PAPERBACK DIRECT (UK/US) Available in paperback and ebook. Go to links to order, by country Tell me, O Reader, of that resourceful man… Read and become Odysseus, the many-minded man, t…
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Choose your own Odyssey!
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Many congratulations on your new book! @lejenksbrown.bsky.social
Very pleased to see this news from a student at the first secondary school I taught in! #EduSky
Very pleased to see this news from a student at the first secondary school I taught in! #EduSky
My incredibly chonky book has been out in the world for two weeks!
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS
OUT NOW! BUY PAPERBACK DIRECT (UK/US) Available in paperback and ebook. Go to links to order, by country Tell me, O Reader, of that resourceful man… Read and become Odysseus, the many-minded man, t…
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Many congratulations on your new book! @lejenksbrown.bsky.social
Very pleased to see this news from a student at the first secondary school I taught in! #EduSky
Very pleased to see this news from a student at the first secondary school I taught in! #EduSky
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Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education
Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.
The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers
My incredibly chonky book has been out in the world for two weeks!
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
YOU ARE ODYSSEUS
OUT NOW! BUY PAPERBACK DIRECT (UK/US) Available in paperback and ebook. Go to links to order, by country Tell me, O Reader, of that resourceful man… Read and become Odysseus, the many-minded man, t…
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My incredibly chonky book has been out in the world for two weeks!
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
Retell The Odyssey by making Odysseus’ choices for him. Or, don’t, and go home to Penelope/get cosy with Phaeacians/skive off to Egypt with Menelaus/die horribly in a variety of ways👌
laurajenkinsonbrown.co.uk/publications...
Searchlights at sunrise
October 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Searchlights at sunrise
Can someone please, please tell me how wide (at widest point) and how tall the Pantheon in Rome is? The diameter of the ball that could fit inside is 43m, but that’s all I can find. Wiki has 53m for both height and width. At some point I wrote down it was 43.2m wide and 52m tall but I lost source!
October 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Can someone please, please tell me how wide (at widest point) and how tall the Pantheon in Rome is? The diameter of the ball that could fit inside is 43m, but that’s all I can find. Wiki has 53m for both height and width. At some point I wrote down it was 43.2m wide and 52m tall but I lost source!
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
October 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you are still awake, take a moment you look up at the moon. Currently untroubled by living humans. Still a place of ghosts, gods and 20th century wreckage.
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I just had my own Magnus Archives moment. *Jonny Sims voice* It was a grey morning, the sun just starting to rise through the fog. The number 8 bus was waiting across the road. I raised my eyes to its sickly yellow light and noticed with a start that *every single passenger was staring at me.*
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I just had my own Magnus Archives moment. *Jonny Sims voice* It was a grey morning, the sun just starting to rise through the fog. The number 8 bus was waiting across the road. I raised my eyes to its sickly yellow light and noticed with a start that *every single passenger was staring at me.*
LOOK AT THESE GUYS GO!!
October 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
LOOK AT THESE GUYS GO!!
I just had my own Magnus Archives moment. *Jonny Sims voice* It was a grey morning, the sun just starting to rise through the fog. The number 8 bus was waiting across the road. I raised my eyes to its sickly yellow light and noticed with a start that *every single passenger was staring at me.*
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I just had my own Magnus Archives moment. *Jonny Sims voice* It was a grey morning, the sun just starting to rise through the fog. The number 8 bus was waiting across the road. I raised my eyes to its sickly yellow light and noticed with a start that *every single passenger was staring at me.*
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✨NEW ARTICLE!✨
Our book reviewer, Carlotta Vincenzi has lost themselves in @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s awesome new book, You Are Odysseus.
www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...
Our book reviewer, Carlotta Vincenzi has lost themselves in @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s awesome new book, You Are Odysseus.
www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...
Book Review: You Are Odysseus — Working Classicists
A book for nayone who ever thought Odysseus could have made better choices. A glowing review of L. Jenkinson-Brown’s, “You Are Odysseus”, from Carlotta Vincenzi.
www.workingclassicists.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
✨NEW ARTICLE!✨
Our book reviewer, Carlotta Vincenzi has lost themselves in @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s awesome new book, You Are Odysseus.
www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...
Our book reviewer, Carlotta Vincenzi has lost themselves in @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s awesome new book, You Are Odysseus.
www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...
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