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

'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.