L E Jenks-Brown ✏️🏺🖊

I would quite seriously play a game where you go round the ancient world ‘acquiring’ books for the Library of Alexandria.

The bronze seal ring from the House of Menander in Pompeii that shows the name of Quintus Poppaeus… are there any images of this item? I just can’t seem to find it!

Me coming back to Twitter to watch the action right now now: ohhh wait I though JD Vance was Lepidus, but it turns out he might actually be Octavian… *stuffs popcorn in mouth*

🧿YOU ARE ODYSSEUS - 25/09/25👁️ An interactive novel retelling of the Odyssey, faithful to Homer’s original and its many translations. By @LEJenksBrown of Greek Myth Comix!

This is delightful! (Which is more than can be said about the situation that inspired it.)

Behaving like tyrants right before the Ides of March has always historically worked out.

The age of the superhero movie is over. The age of the murder mystery film has begun. I want to see country-house whodunits starring every actor in the UK. I want Daniel Craig to do “And Then There Were None” with muppets. I want to see murders on trains.

[THREAD] This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t given by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

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.

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 🎉

Hey guys I hear the queen is single 😏

2025's Ovid Competition for Year 7 students will feature @GreekMythComix as a new judge for a new category, returning judges including @CarolineLawrenc and hopefully a mythical surprise with an amica from @OMChildhood Deadline for entries: 7th February classictales.co.uk/ovid-competiti…

OpenAI are sad someone is using their IP without asking? Maybe they should ask ChatGPT for a definition of irony?

UK friends! You can now order A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology from @Waterstones 🎉 waterstones.com/book/a-periodi…

Being a first-hand witness to the excavations in #Pompeii of the bathhouse has been a joy and an honour. I’ve learnt so much from the team of archaeologists and conservators unravelling, protecting and understanding this complex. New episode of ‘The New Dig’ airs tonight BBC2 9pm

Hey! Check out this lovely episode of The Classics Podcast discussion with Katrina of the Classical Association on illustrating the ancient world, with me and @flaroh and @drcorabeth !

I just finished the Rampart Trilogy by @michaelcarey191 - The Book of Koli, The Trials of Koli, and The Fall of Koli. I might need to be buried with them.

A tiny delight:

I really like using @GoSimpleTax , except for the two hours every year spent trying to get them to let me change my password and log in.

Anyone else read this BBC notification like it was a text message ending in a kiss?