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I made this little guy while colouring with my kid at the library on Saturday.

Now my brain is obsessively combing through all my Ancient Greek creature illustrations to find more creatures to turn into paper kits for schools…

#you’ll know when I’m finished #greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #illustration #greek myth comix #papercraft #khimaira #chimera #school #teacher #classics teacher #library #support libraries

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The Twelve Labours of Heracles 💪

I made these for class, to revise the Labours along with the metopes of Heracles from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia! https://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/resources/Sculpture/context/OlympiaMetopes

All my GCSE classes for Heracles and Hercules are here (from UK Lockdown 1): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN36Hwtm4-c0bqo8hPCLeIMBmkUC5Jb4l

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✨What is XENIA?✨

(2014/2022)

Also a (very shonky but incredibly popular!) video, if you fancy having the clmic explained to you in my best teacher voice -

What is XENIA? Greek Myth Comix explaining Homeric literature

https://youtu.be/oYQRIQtnvII

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Couldn’t help myself…

✨Odysseus has landed on the Moon.✨

Not actually a choice in my choose-your-own-path Odyssey retelling, but hey, you can go with Menelaus to Egypt!

(I was going to make a tired joke about how Odysseus *really* got lost this time, but have this shameless plug instead: https://ljenkinsonbrown.wordpress.com/you-are-odysseus-signup/)

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✨Why Paris is such an Utter Plonker✨

(2014: https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/why-paris-is-such-an-utter-plonker/)

This little ranty Paris infographic is also a two-section video over on my YouTube channel: an explanation of the comic and then a detailed literary rant, with evidence, expanding on all these points. An essay, if you will, on Paris’ Plonkerness.

Enjoy!

youtu.be/1pJ-BOwkHaE

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✨10 YEARS OF GREEK MYTH COMIX✨

I’ve made a special graphic to celebrate - see it in full on GreekMythComix.com

Thank you all so much for your years of support and sharing with your students! The whole intention of this site was to help anyone who wanted to understand terminology and literature of Classical Civilisation, and I think that that intention has been fulfilled!

PS: Go to the site and click ‘First’ under the graphic to see my first ever drawing posted on the site - with only a New Year’s resolution to ‘draw more’, I didn’t know where to start - so I started at the beginning 😂

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I’m going to get some time to work on my You Are Odysseus choose-your-own-Odyssey project this winter holiday! Woo!

If you want to know more, check out this post:

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Made a video to show how to make my Mythical Advent calendars!

Short version:

Long version with full instructions:

Calendars!

#greek mythology #tagamemnon #greek myth #illustration #greek myth comix #comix #advent #make and do #download and print #Youtube

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#ClassicsTober23 31: ✨Hecate👻

Finishing off #ClassicsTober and celebrating Halloween with beloved Hekate, Chthonic witch-goddess of magic and the macabre!

Did you know that in the Gigantomachy she put down the giant Clytius with her twin torches?!

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T16.3.html

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T16.1.html

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Happy Halloween!

Here’s a spooky Hekate lamp…

It’s pretty!

Make your own with this free download pattern I made last year: just add battery tealight

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#ClassicsTober23 29: 🗡️Nemesis🫵

The goddess of divine retribution. She’s tough and looks like she’s be good in a fight. I love that she’s often pictured pointing, as if to say *that’s* the one that’s going to get it.

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/N16.1.html

I’ve modelled my version on these two: an Attic red-figure krater where she’s with Tyche (Fortune) - above- and another where she’s with the Dioscuri in the underworld on the Apulian Underworld krater - below

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/N16.2.html

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#ClassicsTober23 25: 🐟Thetis🛡️

The sea nymph mother of Achilles is nearly always pictured either receiving her son’s new armour from Hephaestus or riding on a hippocamp, stately and impressive.

But I like this little chunky sea nymph that’s likely to be Thetis, from the other side of the Chiron-holding-Achilles amphora (shown on Chiron day). What she’s wearing could almost pass for an old fashioned swimming costume and cap, and I love how she’s just holding fish to link her to the sea.

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/P12.5.html

This one that’s definitely Thetis (as it’s labelled) comes a close second. Fish-slapped Thetis is definitely one Achilles can rely on!

https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/P12.7.html

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#ClassicsTober23 25: 🤖Talos🦾

Another figure study today, from the krater showing his death at the hands of the Argonauts and Medea. A tiny Thanatos aids one of the Argonauts in removing the plug from bronze Talos’ foot, which allowed his ichor to run out and him to die.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparable_to_the_Group_of_Polygnotos_ARV_extra_-_death_of_Talos_-_draped_youths_02.jpg

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