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Oliver Taplin

Author of Greek Tragedy in Action

18+ Works 418 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Oliver Taplin is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University

Includes the names: Oliver Taplin, ed. Oliver Taplin

Image credit: Professor Oliver Taplin Emeritus Professor of Classics Magdalen College

Works by Oliver Taplin

Greek Tragedy in Action (1978) 107 copies
Greek Fire: The Influence of Ancient Greece on the Modern World (1989) 79 copies, 1 review
Literature in the Roman World (2001) — Editor — 44 copies
Literature in the Greek World (2001) — Editor — 37 copies
Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1992) 31 copies, 1 review
Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A New Perspective (2000) — Editor — 23 copies
Odyssey Around Odysseus (1989) 22 copies
Comic Angels: And Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1993) 16 copies
The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1977) 16 copies
Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C. (J. Paul Getty Museum) (2007) 14 copies
Sophocles: Four Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus (2015) 10 copies
Kirjandus Kreeka ja Rooma maailmas : uus vaatenurk (2019) 6 copies
Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004 (2005) — Editor — 6 copies
The Pronomos Vase and its Context (2010) — Editor — 2 copies
Greek with consequence 2 copies
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Associated Works

The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) 1,223 copies, 2 reviews
The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World (1986) — Contributor, some editions — 772 copies, 4 reviews
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (1997) — Contributor — 195 copies
New Classicism (1990) — Contributor — 32 copies
Oxford Readings in Homer's Iliad (2002) — Contributor — 28 copies
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009) — Contributor — 28 copies
Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (1996) — Contributor — 20 copies
Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (1996) — Contributor — 20 copies
Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (2007) — Contributor — 15 copies
Owls to Athens: Essays on Classical Culture Presented to Sir Kenneth Dover (1990) — Contributor — 13 copies
A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations (2016) — Foreword — 12 copies
Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium (2004) — Contributor — 10 copies
Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy (2012) — Contributor — 10 copies
Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (2009) — Contributor — 7 copies
Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies
Classics in Progress Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome (2006) — Contributor — 6 copies
Dionysalexandros : essays on Aeschylus and his fellow tragedians in honour of Alexander F. Garvie (2006) — Contributor — 5 copies
Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (1990) — Contributor — 5 copies
Allusion, Authority, and Truth Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (1999) — Contributor — 4 copies
Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (2007) — Contributor — 3 copies
Tony Harrison and the Classics (2022) — Contributor — 3 copies
Ancient comedy and reception : essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson (2013) — Contributor — 3 copies
Eris vs. Aemulatio (Mnemosyne, Supplements) (2018) — Contributor — 3 copies
Arktouros : Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday (1979) — Contributor — 3 copies
Seamus Heaney and the classics : Bann Valley muses (2019) — Contributor — 2 copies
Homer, Tragedy and Beyond - Essays in Honour of PE Easterling (2001) — Introduction — 2 copies
Greek Fire: Architecture [film] — Classical Consultant — 1 copy
Greek Fire Volume Two: Politics & Sex (Film) — Classical Consultant — 1 copy
Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis [theatre programme] (2004) — Contributor — 1 copy
Ancient Greek Comedy: Genre – Texts – Reception (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 101) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy
Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 84) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Legal name
Taplin, Oliver
Birthdate
1943-08-02
Gender
male
Education
University of Oxford
Relationships
Taplin, Kim (former spouse)
Taplin, Phoebe (offspring)
Nationality
UK
Associated Place (for map)
UK

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3 reviews
timspalding204 reviews
Greek fire by Oliver Taplin
This is really a wonderful little book, much deeper than its semi-coffee table appearance might indicate.
Aug 21, 2005
ColgateClassics1,422 reviews
Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad by Oliver Taplin
"2012-10-26 12:00:00"
Oct 26, 2012

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Works
18
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Members
418
Popularity
#58,320
Rating
3.8
Reviews
2
ISBNs
40
Languages
4

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