# Oliver Taplin
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oliver taplin, FBA (born 2 August 1943) is a retired British academic and classicist. He was a fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University.
Antigone
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigone, by Sophocles (c496-c406 BC), is powerfully ambiguous, inviting the audience to reassess its values constantly before the climax of the play resolves the plot if not the issues. Antigone is barely …
Antigone
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigone, by Sophocles (c496-c406 BC), is powerfully ambiguous, inviting the audience to reassess its values constantly before the climax of the play resolves the plot if not the issues. Antigone is barely …
The Odyssey
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Odyssey by Homer, often claimed as the great founding work of Western Literature. It's an epic that has entertained its audience for nearly three thousand years: It has shipwrecks, Cyclops, brave heroes and seductive sex goddesses. But it’s also got revenge, true…
The Epic
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the epic. In his essay 'Why the novel matters', DH Lawrence argued that the novel contained all aspects of life. Perhaps better placed to make that claim is the epic. From tackling questions of identity, history, warfare, mortality and the ways of the …
Sicily and Ancient Greek Theatre
A podcast episode with Oliver Taplin and Giovanna Di Martino This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor Oxford) and Dr Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) to discuss Sicily's privileged relationship with ancient Greek drama. They take as their …
Sicily and Ancient Greek Theatre (Transcript)
A podcast episode with Oliver Taplin and Giovanna Di Martino This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor Oxford) and Dr Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) to discuss Sicily's privileged relationship with ancient Greek drama. They take as their …
Sicily and Ancient Greek Theatre
A podcast episode with Oliver Taplin and Giovanna Di Martino This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor Oxford) and Dr Giovanna Di Martino (UCL) to discuss Sicily's privileged relationship with ancient Greek drama. They take as their …
Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The ev…
Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The ev…
Free Thinking - Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to Anne McElvoy about his latest book – The Buried Giant. And as two separate productions of Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, are performed on stage in London – the playwright Roy Williams and the Greek scholar and translator, Oliver Taplin assess the enduring appeal of t…
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