This is so helpful, thank you! This is all to do with potential AI usage by pupils. The other mysterious term appears to be ‘ornitheoskopos’, which has a similar construction but no actual provenance…

Classics Teaching emergency! I need to know the exact meaning of the term ‘hieroscopos’, and why it was an important role in Athens.

Where am I…?

My 5yo went in for a hug and accidentally headbutted me so hard that now I have a fat lip and a concussion.

5yo is enjoying her Hobbit costume and her new illustrated book of The Hobbit (she’s only had the audiobook). The One Ring also working perfectly.

Ever so proud of my 5yo who opened a present, yelled, in the most excited voice, “BOOKS!” And then proceeded to announce each title.

It’s the final night of Saturnalia, and Christmas Eve Eve! Here’s a present: a FREE PDF of two Roman games!

If you’d like to support someone amazing, here is where you should get all if @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s cool stuff: #ClassicsBluesky

I’m giving all of my December GMC downloads proceeds to these two charities. Total is currently up to $267! greekmythcomix.gumroad.com for random fun end-of-term and school holiday activities. Most are pocket-money prices, or free/choose-what-to-pay. All of it will go to Gaza and Sudan.

BUNDLE V – THE ADVENTURER BUNDLE 🧭 A Steam key for @polygontreehouse.bsky.social's fab video game Mythwrecked, a much-coveted copy of Laura Jenkinson-Brown’s (@lejenksbrown.bsky.social) You Are Odysseus, AND a leather-bound single-volume edition of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey! #SolidaritySaturnalia

It’s the amazing @workingclassicists.bsky.social Solidarity Saturnalia event!! Lots of fabulous prizes to be given away!

It's Friday! Time for the good news thread. What's YOUR good news? In lieu of a pic of what I'm watching, I'm sharing the #Creatives4Sudan auction again. My good news is we've raised over 13k now but we can do more. Please consider a bid to make my news even better! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

My husband suggests they asked their kids to come up with the name…

Self portrait of a new scar. (I had surgery to remove the last of several persistent tumours three days ago and taking the bandages off has been intense)

Absolutely thrilled that the last six years haven’t come to naught!

One for the ancient historians movieweb.com/netflix-assa...

Fellow train nerds! Book collectors! Fans of @monisharajesh.bsky.social! Any of the above! Bid on this signed edition of the brilliant Moonlight Express in the #Creatives4Sudan auction. Over £6k raised now, but let's shoot for £10k! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... (Art below by @raafaye on insta.)

A parent brought my book with them to parents evening, so I could sign it. Chuffed and embarrassed in equal measure.

I’m getting an mp3 player for Christmas.

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.

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)

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

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

O Tempora O Mores 2: Electric Boogaloo

Today is publication day of this new exciting book by my friend and former colleague Steve Tuck! Please spread the word and order below.

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

Gave an impromptu storytelling of the entire Trojan war in 25 mins today really should have recorded it because it was *perfect*.

Choose your own Odyssey!

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

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...

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!

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.

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.

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!!

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.*

✨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...

Look what arrived today! It's @lejenksbrown.bsky.social's YOU ARE ODYSSEUS choose your own adventure book! 15yo snatched it up before I could, but she gave it a nice home on that shelf, don't you think? (I'll borrow it at some point. Soon.)

My book has been out for a WEEK and has surpassed the dreaded ‘average lifetime number of sales for a self-published title’ so I am VERY HAPPY!

Happy pub day to MEEEEEEEEEEE (and Odysseus)

This review of YOU ARE ODYSSEUS by @csmfht.bsky.social knocked me out of my shoes! (And made me really want to eat pudding…) csmfht.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

They are all the most fun ever. They are just ridiculous and wonderful and magical.

extremely lucky to have friends like @mythsbaby.bsky.social who wrote the Foreword for YOU ARE ODYSSEUS! My lovely mailing list have been treated to an early preview of Liv’s brilliant words that introduce the book - as well as a pre-order giveaway!

Apparently it’s not out in. Week. It’s out now. IF you’ve pre-ordered it, and it’s very naughtily been shipped to you six days early!