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Emma Bentley

@emmabentley.bsky.social

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PhD researcher in Classics at Durham University. Interested in trees + carpentry in Greek tragedy, materialism, labour history, and the environmental humanities

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Emma Bentley @emmabentley.bsky.social · 22d

So happy that this issue is out (featuring my article on trees in Euripides' Bacchae)!

Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 22d

Thrilled the Special Issue of Green Letters I edited with Alison Sharrock is now online if you have access to Taylor and Francis. Mostly on trees in epic from Homer to Nonnus

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 29

As ever, massive shoutout to the amazing YDTM production team: Emma, Nagouse, Emmie-Rose Price-Goodfellow, Steve Hankey, Gill Huggett, Philip Sellars…

….and special shoutout to our PhD research intern @emmabentley.bsky.social who also co-wrote this episode

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEW EPISODE!!! This week on You’re Dead To Me is a very funny romp through the extraordinary military career of Hannibal of Carthage, the man who came close to bringing Rome to its knees

Our guests are the hilarious Darren Harriott and the brilliant ancient historian @josephinequinn.bsky.social

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Emma Bentley @emmabentley.bsky.social · Aug 22

This episode was such a pleasure to research!

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 22

New episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME!

It’s about the amazing cultural and scientific history of the city of Alexandria, with Prof Islam Issa and comedian @athenakugblenu.bsky.social

Listen now on BBC SOUNDS

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 8

Shoutout to the amazing YDTM production team:

Emma Nagouse, Emmie-Rose Price-Goodfellow, Steve Hankey, Gill Huggett, Philip Sellars

This episode was researched by our brilliant PhD student Emma Bentley

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Aug 8

New episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME: Renaissance Beauty — makeup, hair, skincare in 16th century Italy

With me, comedian Tatty Macleod, and expert historian Professor @jillburke.bsky.social

Available now on BBC SOUNDS, and coming to other podcast apps in 28 days www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Smily photo of comedian Tatty Macleod with pink hair and pink shirt, Professor Jill Burke with blonde hair and white shirt, and Greg Jenner with green shirt, brown curly hair and beard, and he is pointing to splodges of orange makeup on his face

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · Jul 21

As someone who couldn't have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. It's incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’

Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Emma Bentley @emmabentley.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thanks! You can read a version of it here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dionysus Dendrites: Trees in Euripides’ Bacchae

This article reads Euripides’ Bacchae as a play about the relationships, dependencies, and antagonisms between trees, humans, and the gods. On Mount Cithaeron, where much of the narrated action unf...

www.tandfonline.com

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Emma Bentley @emmabentley.bsky.social · Jul 18

thank you, it was a pleasure!

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · Jul 18

It was an absolute pleasure to be on wonderful @gregjenner.bsky.social 's programme #YDTM Lovely to meet the delightful Celya AB. Found out more about Alexandre Dumas, the prolific author of the Three Musketeers and of MANY other bestsellers.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

You're Dead to Me - Alexandre Dumas: author of The Three Musketeers - BBC Sounds

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about acclaimed French novelist Alexandre Dumas.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Bentley @emmabentley.bsky.social · Jul 18

I had so much fun researching this episode!!

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 ‘YOU’RE DEAD TO ME’🚨

NEW EPISODE! The amazing life and work of French writer Alexandre Dumas, who created the Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo

My fantastic guests are comedian Celya AB and historian @historianmemory.bsky.social
Listen on BBC SOUNDS, or wait 28 days for other apps

A photo of the comedian Celya AB, historian Greg Jenner, and historian Prof Olivette Otele smiling as they sit side by side

The You’re Dead To Me artwork is a funny play on the Bayeux Tapestry and shows an angry King Harold, with arrow in his eye, pointing accusingly at Willian of Normandy

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Emma Bentley @emmabentley.bsky.social · Jun 19

Really enjoyed presenting a paper on Dionysiac forests at the @ischistory.bsky.social conference in Rovaniemi earlier this week!

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