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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 1d

Choose your own Odyssey!

L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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…

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

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

L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Ms Cowley 😋

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

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

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

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...

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much! That means a lot!

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

YAY! CONGRATULATIONS!!

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

@suecowley.bsky.social this is it! ^

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Thankyou! Yes I knew this but not about the pizza (doh!)

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Searchlights at sunrise

Swathes of bright pink light reflecting off spreading contrails in the sunset, against a blue sky and with darker clouds in the foreground.

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 2d

I was so convinced I had this wrong. The Pantheon is really, really big.

The facade of the Pantheon in size comparison with the Parthenon, Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and Temple of Portunus from the Forum Boarium in Rome.

The facade of the Pantheon in size comparison with the Parthenon, Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and Temple of Portunus from the Forum Boarium in Rome. This time there’s a huge blue ball inside the Pantheon to show the diameter of the inner imaginary sphere.

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Diagram yes, dimensions no. There are bizarrely few dimensions on any diagrams of the Pantheon that I can find.

L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Oh ok if I use the the diameter of the imaginary ball I can put it on a scale and work it out from there. Phew!

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 2d

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

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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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 4d

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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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 3d

LOOK AT THESE GUYS GO!!

Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 4d

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Newspaper article about the Working Classicists Guide to National 5 Classical Studies, in today’s Courier (Dundee).

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s magic word on my digital bus ticket is ‘Brink’ and I think that’s appropriate.

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 4d

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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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 7d

✨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...

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

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, this is lovely! ✨

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!

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Principia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · 9d

Black-and-white surreal image of two women in old-fashioned Victorian-style dresses and hats standing on a beach, one holding an umbrella, the other raising her hand in greeting. Looming in the stormy sky above the ocean is a gigantic shadowy figure of Cthulhu, with wings spread and tentacles dangling. At the bottom, film-style captions read:
“-Good morning Mr. Cthulhu.
-Morning ladies.”
The juxtaposition of cosmic horror with casual seaside politeness gives the scene a darkly comedic, absurd vibe.

Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.

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L E Jenks-Brown @lejenksbrown.bsky.social · 9d

I love both the idea and the presentation!
(Can you tag @classicstober.bsky.social (instead of personal accounts) in the next ones?)

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