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Putting the finishing touches to the build videos for the Trojan War Playset, so mocked up a couple of scenes from the Iliad. Can you recognise…
1)…
I constantly go on about my favourite comparative moment between the Odyssey and the Aeneid: the stag.
In Odyssey Book 10, Odysseus kills a stag and carries it back to his men…
MEDIUM-HARD BUILD
✨ The ENTIRE TROJAN WAR
https://t.co/uzyGsvRRnT
Black and white. Includes Achilles’ hut, the Achaian fortifications, the Walls of Troy and Skaian Gates, and the Trojan Horse, as well as 53 characters! (Excluding Paris - he’ll be in a future file update…)

MEDIUM BUILD:
✨Achilles’ Chariot
https://t.co/CiMmkADDMW
Build a colourful model of Achilles chariot, based on examples of Mycenaean/Bronze Age chariots from frescos. (Includes optional Hector 😬)
It’s #OdysseyReadalong2022 day! @platosfire will be guiding you through Books 7-8, but I’m still a bit stuck catching up with Books 5-6🫣
Make sure you’ve read through the comic on Xenia that I posted the other day - it will explain what you’ve read so far and what’s coming!
before we see the outcome of giving non or bad xenia throughout the rest of the poem.
Like many cultural features seen in the Odyssey, it takes the form of a ritual, or formula:
✨XENIA✨
During #odysseyreadalong2022 you may have noticed the theme of xenia - hospitality and guest-friendship - is seen in action several times in each of the opening four books of the Odyssey in order to set out how important it is to give good xenia…
It’s Books 1 and 2 of @platosfire ‘s #odysseyreadalong2022 ! Check out other posts on the hashtag here and on Insta to see the discussion!
A reminder that you can get the black and white image pack of these little Odysseus for you to colour in yourself!
https://t.co/cAC4oxUYHS
Argh there’s UNDER AN HOUR TO GO on the Ancient Creatures launch!!⏱
If you’ve been waiting to make an order of the ABC or Colouring book, now’s the time!
https://t.co/BBkh4XRvtM