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Hello! I’m Jenks and I make Greek Myth Comix. I’m a Classics teacher and I started off making these Classics comix for my own classes - explanations of Homeric technique and The Odyssey - and over the last nine years it’s kind of spiralled into build-your-own models and playsets and professional archaeological illustration… and chickens.

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Main Comix Site: GreekMythComix.com

YouTube videos (educational mostly): https://youtube.com/@GreekMythComix

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Merchy illustration stuff: https://www.redbubble.com/people/greekmythcomix/shop

LinkTree Of Everything: https://linktr.ee/lejenkinson_greekmythcomix

I’ll post here probably at the same time as my other accounts, though I’ll save the properly esoteric stuff for here.

Here for myth interpretation, help with understanding terms and style and other Classics lit stuff, and #ClassicsTober, but not help with your homework. Ok maybe just a little help.

(Although if you’re homeschooled in Classics, come here for actual help: https://ljenkinsonbrown.wordpress.com/portfolio/classics-homeschooling-help/)

MASTERPOSTS:

Greek Myth / Roman History chickens: https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/725538723329179648/greek-myth-roman-history-chickens-master-post

You Are Odysseus (Choose-Your-Own-Path Odyssey/IF/Gamebook: https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/725539351505813504/you-are-odysseus-choose-your-own-path-odyssey?source=share

Fry’s Odyssey - and what is changed in it vs The Odyssey: https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/766601859762929664/ok-im-back-lets-do-this-ody-now-stands-in

Ok I’m back. Let’s do this: - Ody now stands in the courtyard - that’s meant to be the next morning? On the feast of Apollo. Fry adds dung

Epic The Musical vs The Odyssey infographics: https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/757966993192353792/epic-the-musical-vs-the-odyssey-masterpost?source=share

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ACTÆON - comic and music video - Clair Le Couteur (Lunatraktors) & Greek Myth Comix

Comic:

Video:

The story of Actaeon, in piano and song.

The track comes from the 2017 album New Myths, by Clair Le Couteur (of https://www.youtube.com/@Lunatraktors)

I drew the comic for Clair when they shared the song with me in 2014 (which is why it’s a bit scratchy, and yes I put 2017 as the comix date at the end because that’s when the album came out and I got confused!) and always wanted to make it into a video. I finally got round to it! Even after all this time, it still gives me chills.

The album New Myths also has tracks telling the Ancient Greek stories of the Minotaur (Three Labyrinths), Aesacus and Hesperie (Cormorant Song), as well as modern and other fables, all with heartstopping beauty. Details are below.

See the original comic: https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/actaeon-clair-le-couteur-lej/

Listen to / purchase New Myths: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/album/new-myths

See Lunatraktors' discography: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com

Lunatraktors' website: https://www.lunatraktors.space

artemiz0npawz

LORE DROP:

I know this exact comic. I have the music narrated version saved on mp3

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This makes me so happy!

For the Season 1 finale of YOU ARE ODYSSEUS the audiobook podcast (of the interactive Odyssey retelling - phew, what a mouthful!) I made an Odysseus portrait illustration for the episode cover. In the book, the title page has a black and white illustration of Odysseus, purposely facing away so that his face is whatever you imagine it to be. For the podcast cover, he’s side on like all my other portraits, but his head is covered with his cloak, so, again, shrouded in mystery - just how he likes it, especially for intriguing the Phaeacians into asking his name and showering him with gifts!

I’ve drawn this model before, in my children’s book ‘Ancient Greek Mythical Creatures ABC’, and he’s just perfect as Odysseus. (Luckily for me I’m married to him ❤️)

In Iliad Book 3, Priam notes that Odysseus is a head shorter than Menelaus, but “broader of shoulder and of chest to look upon”, and like “a ram of thick fleece”. Antenor notes that he’s unassuming to look at - especially compared to Menelaus - except when they’re seated he has the more Royal bearing, and then he stands to speak he looks like “a churlish man and naught but a fool”, until he releases “his great voice from his chest, and words like snowflakes on a winter's day, then could no mortal man beside vie with Odysseus; then did we not so marvel to behold Odysseus' aspect.” Did I do ok?

#Odysseus #odyssey #you are Odysseus #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #illustration #homer #greek myth retellings #the odyssey #audiobook #podcast

artandbeauty71

EVERYONE LOOK!!

Baby Hermes w his turtle bestie🥹🥹🥹

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Here’s what Hermes does to his turtle bestie:

(For Sing O Muse! Zine vol.1)

#hermes #poor turtle bestie #greek gods #greek mythology #greek deities #ancient greece #art #comic #birth of Hermes #homeric hymns

Apropos of nothing: that time I turned the Book of Revelation - the Seven Seals - into a comic for Pipe Wrench Magazine’s ‘Apocalypse, Now?’ issue (https://pipewrenchmag.com/issue-four-oct-nov-2021-archive/) and was surprised to find so much reference to Ancient Greek and Roman myth in it.

Anyway.

I love my Death and his horsey.

#apocalypse #seven seals #Bible #mythology #end times #revelation #four horsemen #four horsepeople of the apocalypse #four horsepersons #illustration #good omens #death #and his horsey #hades

Out Of Context Epic The Musical marginalia! 🌈 Can you spot what Sagas they’re from?

I miss the days when my kid was at nursery and #epicthemusical was releasing: I’d walk her there, then listen to the saga on the way home, make notes for an infographic comparing the musical and the source text (for educational purposes because even Jorge says Read The Text For School), and then spend a glorious afternoon drawing stupid marginalia like these to accompany the notes. Then she started school, the releases were over, and I ran out of steam - I still haven’t done the last two! (But also - they’re almost entirely different to the Odyssey and too hard)

(They’re all here: https://greekmythcomix.com/literature-comix-and-infographics/)

The thing I loved about Epic the most was it was the first time I felt I could draw stoopid Odyssey stuff instead of being deadly serious (for educational purposes.) I’ve drawn explanatory comics for every Odyssey Book studied at school, but this is what lives in my head. I’m fairly stoopid about The Odyssey in the alternative sections of YOU ARE ODYSSEUS at times (my book, you should read it) so maybe I’ll have to draw those sections for myself - hades knows the new film has so far inspired me to draw NADA

#odyssey film #odyssey #homers odyssey #epic #epic the musical #tagamemnon #greek mythology #illustration #odysseus #homer #greek myth retellings #you are odysseus #the odyssey #greek myth #etm #etm fanart

Been a bit distracted.

Before I had Greek Myth, I had religious dogma and Scifi-fantasy crossovers. I had Pratchett.

I’m old enough (and was precocious enough) to have read Good Omens when it came out, and optimistic enough that I loved the adaptation and last week’s finale (the unutterably limited version that somehow still got made.)

So imagine me at work, invigilating assessments, still somehow accidentally dressing like a specific angel-demon lovechild, just feeling like I’m getting over it when… bebop.

*sigh*

I miss them.

Additional drawings from my Chickens and puns phase.

(Petition to release the unused S3 scripts?)

#good omens #good omens 3 #Aziraphale #Crowley #terry pratchett #chickens #child of annihilation #bebop

Because what I do now is go in and on about The Odyssey, wrote a new thing about the Nolan Odyssey trailer that came out today:

Hey friends, You know, I was just thinking I haven’t had anything to write about for ages, and lo and behold – Athena answered my prayers an

Previous articles on this topic:

I said a while back that I would write an article for this mailing list about the Empire Magazine’s exclusive Christopher Nolan interview/Od

I punched myself in the face today. It was an accident – I was bending down, lifting a very large potted plant, and when I dropped it my han

So, yeah, come rant with me in a good-natured-yet-kind-of-heartbroken way I guess?

#tagamemnon #greek myth #odyssey #odysseus #homer #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #the odyssey #Nolan #a film by christopher nolan #trailer

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Suddenly remembered this stupid thing I made and can’t remember if I ever posted it here

(Hey Odyssey fans please also enjoy my interactive book and audiobook podcast YOU ARE ODYSSEUS 👍)

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"I pondered in my mighty heart whether to throw myself overboard..."

WAIT A MINUTE-

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I’m so sorry to burst your bubble but this is from 2022!

But there’s something about people thinking about Odysseus when *they’re* stressed that I think we share 😁

#like minds

Suddenly remembered this stupid thing I made and can’t remember if I ever posted it here

(Hey Odyssey fans please also enjoy my interactive book and audiobook podcast YOU ARE ODYSSEUS 👍)

#I am Odysseus #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #odyssey #illustration #odysseus #homer #greek myth retellings #you are odysseus #the odyssey #the infamous Odysseus #epic #literature #meme #ancient greek culture #Ancient Greek meme

This is my prediction/hope for the Nolan Odyssey film:

So far all we’ve seen are grey-and-sepia-toned action shots of fighting men (in trousers?! and Viking ships and Classical helmets but anyway) at Troy, and snippets of similarly colour-schemed life on Ithaca.

What if, in between them, the narrative section (books 5-12) goes FULL OZ with t e c h n i c o l o u r supernatural scenes and touches of actual bronze?

One can dream, right?

#odyssey film #odyssey #nolan #a film by christopher nolan #nolan odyssey #film #Oz #wizard of oz #greek mythology #greek myth #tagamemnon #homer #greek myth retellings #the odyssey

medusaspeach

Happy Friday. Attempted some of the bois.. and Paris

🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

#news #archaeology #Iliad #Homer #ancient #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #Egypt #oxyrinchus #papyrus #mummification #ritual #funerary practices

THANKYOU TO 'PROCLUS (WHOEVER HE MAY BE) FOR WRITING HIS CHRESTOMATHY (‘DESIRE FOR LEARNING') AT SOME POINT IN ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY, WHERE HE SUMMARISED MANY OF THESE TEXTS, THUS PRESERVING THEM FOR US.

YAY PROCLUS!

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #odyssey #Iliad #TELEGONUS #aethiopis #epic #epic cycle #ancient literature #infographic #comic #illustration #odysseus

I totally missed this news about the ‘School of Homer’ or ‘Homer’s Palace’ site on Ithaca last June/July: more inscriptions found that cement the idea of the site as a hero cult sanctuary, worshipping Odysseus - an Odysseion.

Archaeologists at the site of Aghios Athanasios – the “School of Homer” in northern Ithaki have unearthed new evidence of a hero cult dedica

My favourite things:

Pottery sherds/tiles with (partial) dedications to Odysseus on them: “…14 stamped tiles bear Greek and Latin inscriptions — including, crucially, pieces that mention Odysseus by name. One tile fragment carries the genitive form [ΟΔ]ΥCCEOC – meaning “of Odysseus,” perhaps to denote ownership or dedication. Another bears the partial inscription ΟΔΥC[CEI, likely a votive phrase meaning “to Odysseus.” “

This teensy head of a bronze statuette or bust identified as Odysseus that I hadn’t seen before (unclear when this was found) - it has similar features to images on Ithacan bronze coins from the 3rd and 4th centuries BCE. (See the article)

Reminder of hero and other cults in Ancient Greek worship: https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/classicstober-day-21-cult/

#odyssey #Ithaca #archaeology #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #odysseus #homer #the odyssey #odysseion

oscarcaselart

Finally finished this whole set and took the opportunity to revamp the older ones. It’s been fun. Prints can be found here. https://oscarcaselart.tumblr.com/

mikeybooch

Artemis and Apollo slaying the Niobids.

In Greek Mythology, Niobe was a queen of Thebes and mother to anywhere between 12-14 children (sources vary). She boasted that she was superior in motherhood to the goddess Leto, who only had two children... The Olympians Artemis and Apollo.

The divine twins could not abide by such insult to their mother and struck down the children of Niobe one by one from on high with their arrows.

Niobe is depicted in the Archaic style in the border of the illustration, across from Leto, mourning the loss of her children as they are felled by the arrows of Artemis and Apollo.

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