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Prof. Oliver Taplin MA, DPhil, FBA

Fellow and Tutor, Magdalen College
Director, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
66 St. Giles'
Oxford,
OX1 3LU

oliver.taplin@classics.ox.ac.uk



Research Interests

Greek Poetry, especially Epic and Drama, their original and subsequent reception

Selected Recent Publications

1995: 'Opening Performance: Closing Texts?', Essays in Criticism, 45, 93-120.
1997: 'The Artistic Record' in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy ed. P. Easterling, Cambridge, 69-90.
1999: 'Spreading the word through performance' in Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy eds. S. Goldhill and R. Osborne, Cambridge, 33-57.
2000: Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A New Perspective, Clarendon Press, Oxford.