Oliver Taplin

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Professor Oliver Taplin FBA is a fellow and tutor of Classics (Literae Humaniores) at Magdalen College, Oxford. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University.

Once described as "the Paddington Bear of the classics-teaching world", Taplin is author of several books, including 'Greek Fire', a celebration of the capacity of Ancient Greek culture to stand the test of time and influence modern art, thought and society. The book accompanied a Channel 4 documentary series of the same name. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

[edit] Selected publications

• The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: the Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977.
• Greek Tragedy in Action , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978 (2nd Edition 2003).
• Comic Angels: and Other Approaches to Greek Drama Through Vase-Paintings , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993.
• 'Opening Performance: Closing Texts?', Essays in Criticism, 45, 93–120, 1995.
• 'The Artistic Record'. In P. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, 69–90, 1997.
• 'Spreading the word through performance'. In S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (eds.), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, Cambridge, 33–57, 1999.
• Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A New Perspective, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000.

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