Books written by Oliver Taplin

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  Pots & Plays: Interactions Between Tragedy and Greek Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

  Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.

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  Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin

  Consider this example, which contains that wellknown phrase 'amid our troubles'. It occurs in the scene with Creon, when Oedipus asks why nothing was done to find Laius' killers immediately. Creon replies in the Yeats version: [Cf.

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  Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A New Perspective

  E. Gowers , The Loaded Table : Representations of Food in Roman Literature ( Oxford 1993 ) . A. Hardie , Statius and the Silvae ( Liverpool , 1983 ) . J. Henderson , Figuring out Roman Nobility : Juvenal's Eighth Satire ( Exeter ...

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  The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy

  Imagination, helped by anachronistic sources, has played the chief role for those dealing with the dramaturgy of Aeschylus' works, and the result hasusually been stages crowded with extras and equipment.In this book, the author approaches ...

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  The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy

  In this book, Taplin looks for clues to Aeschylus's stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves, analyzing the exits and entrances that occur throughout his works.

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  Sophocles: Antigone and Other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra

  These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.

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  Greek Tragedy in Action

  Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.

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  Literature in the Greek World

  The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.'The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences.

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  The Pronomos Vase and Its Context

  SHAPIRO, H. A. (1977), Personification of Abstract Concepts in Greek Art and Literature to the End of the Fifth Century BC ... The Eye of Greece: Studies in the Art of Athens, 149–81. ... Greek Vases: Images, Contexts and Controversies.

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  Greek Tragedy in Action

  Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.

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  Greek Fire

  The book explores what has been made out of ancient Greece, and how the modern world has been inspired by, reacted against, imitated, transformed, parodied, recycled, subverted or received Greek...