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Another ChapterS2. Chapter 4 - Bookish chatsAnother chatty episode is in store for Chapter Four of Season Two. Claire and Rebecca chat about recent book post, their current reads and setting up a Cork book club!Books mentioned in this episode: Spot Says Goodnight by Eric Hill Look Out! Hungry Lion by Paul Delaney Look Out! Hungry Snake by Paul Delaney A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston Poppy and Sam’s Noisy Train by Sam Taplin The Peppa Pig Official Annual 2023 The Island Home by Libby Page The Second Child by Caroline Bond Th...
2024-03-0541 minAbsorb A Next-Level Full Audiobook On Your Commute.
Absorb A Next-Level Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Prometheus Bound (Unabridged) by AeschylusPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683437to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prometheus Bound (Unabridged) Author: Aeschylus Narrator: Expatriate Sames Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 5, 2023 Genres: Epic Fantasy Publisher's Summary: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus is an Ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who defies Zeus, and protects and gives fire to mankind, for which he is subjected to the wrath of Zeus and punished. C. J. Herington claims that...
2023-05-0558 minIgnite The Most Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook Today!
Ignite The Most Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook Today!Prometheus Bound (Unabridged) by AeschylusPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683437to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prometheus Bound (Unabridged) Author: Aeschylus Narrator: Expatriate Sames Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 5, 2023 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus is an Ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who defies Zeus, and protects and gives fire to mankind, for which he is subjected to the wrath of Zeus and punished. C. J. Herington claims that Aeschylus...
2023-05-0558 minAccess Essential Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy
Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic FantasyPrometheus Bound (Unabridged) by AeschylusPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prometheus Bound (Unabridged) Author: Aeschylus Narrator: Expatriate Sames Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 5, 2023 Genres: Epic Fantasy Publisher's Summary: Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus is an Ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who defies Zeus, and protects and gives fire to mankind, for which he is subjected to the wrath of Zeus and punished. C. J. Herington claims...
2023-05-0503 minIn Our Time: Culture
In Our Time: CultureAntigoneMelvyn 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 a teenager and is prepared to defy her uncle Creon, the new king of Thebes, who has decreed that nobody should bury the body of her brother, a traitor, on pain of death. This sets up a conflict between generations, between the state and the individual, uncle and niece, autocracy and...
2022-04-2154 minIn Our Time
In Our TimeAntigoneMelvyn 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 a teenager and is prepared to defy her uncle Creon, the new king of Thebes, who has decreed that nobody should bury the body of her brother, a traitor, on pain of death. This sets up a conflict between generations, between the state and the individual, uncle and niece, autocracy and pluralism...
2022-04-2154 minIn Our Time
In Our TimeAntigoneMelvyn 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 a teenager and is prepared to defy her uncle Creon, the new king of Thebes, who has decreed that nobody should bury the body of her brother, a traitor, on pain of death. This sets up a conflict between generations, between the state and the individual, uncle and niece, autocracy and...
2022-04-2154 minKhameleon Classics
Khameleon ClassicsStaging Medea: Then and Now, with Oliver TaplinEuripides’s play Medea has continued to fascinate and provoke ever since its first performance almost 2500 years ago. But what did that first performance look like, and how did it contribute to enabling the play’s endurance ever since? In this episode, Shivaike Shah speaks to Oliver Taplin, former Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford, about why Medea’s debut at the City Dionysia festival in Athens in 431BCE, where it only came third, was so groundbreaking - and so shocking.To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https...
2021-09-2724 minEffed Up History
Effed Up HistoryOh Gods, Medea, Please Don't Do This (Part 2): Effed Up Mythology VIIIOriginally posted on Spotify 5/16/21 Part 2 of the podcast about that witchy and infamous mother, Medea.This part mainly focuses on the story from the play, Medea by Euripides.  TRIGGER WARNING toxic relationship and murder of children. Sources:Medea by Euripides translated by Oliver TaplinLOTS of googling and not writing down sources like a bad researcher.Music:Skeleton Dance by MyuuNightmare by Lee RosevereUnderworld by Myuu Support the Show. Effed Up History is researched, produced, and edited by Krystina Yeager.C...
2021-05-1731 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragediesTORCH 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 events are free to attend and open to all. Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or...
2021-03-011h 06TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragediesTORCH 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 events are free to attend and open to all. Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or...
2021-03-011h 06TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragediesTORCH 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 events are free to attend and open to all. Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or...
2021-03-011h 06TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragediesTORCH 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 events are free to attend and open to all. Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or...
2021-03-011h 06Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD PodcastSicily and Ancient Greek TheatreA podcast 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 starting point images relating to the 1914 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the Ancient Greek theatre at Syracuse. Introduced by Claire Barnes. Recorded in March 2020.
2020-12-0938 minReimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD PodcastSicily and Ancient Greek TheatreA podcast 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 starting point images relating to the 1914 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the Ancient Greek theatre at Syracuse. Introduced by Claire Barnes. Recorded in March 2020.
2020-12-0938 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLive Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBETORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week Biographies: Fiona Shaw CBE Fiona Shaw is an actor and theatre and opera director. She is known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–10), as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood (2011), and as Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–present), for which she won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supp...
2020-11-041h 09TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLive Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBETORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week Biographies: Fiona Shaw CBE Fiona Shaw is an actor and theatre and opera director. She is known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–10), as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood (2011), and as Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–present), for which she won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supp...
2020-11-041h 09Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lecturesJosephine Balmer: A ReadingPoet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons. This reading is followed by a discussion with Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift, and Oliver Taplin.
2019-03-131h 07TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTed Hughes: The Unauthorised LifeJonathan Bate, Anne Farrar Donovan, Seamus Perry and Oliver Taplin discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet To celebrate the publication of Jonathan Bate's new biography Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life we were joined by a distinguished panel to discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet. Seamus Perry (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford) explores Hughes's seductive personality and poetry, and his 'genius for mythologisation', and describes how Jonathan Bate's new biography humanises Ted Hughes. Oliver Taplin (Former Fellow and Tutor of Classics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford) discusses Hughes's fertile and unapologetic engagement with the literature of Ancient Greece...
2015-10-2053 minMedea
MedeaWomen in Ancient GreeceHistorian Bettany Hughes and theatre scholar Oliver Taplin discuss the place of women in religion and their depiction as dangerous and tragic figures.
2014-09-0327 minGreek Theatre
Greek TheatreMedea: Women in Ancient GreeceHistorian Bettany Hughes and theatre scholar Oliver Taplin discuss the place of women in religion and their depiction as dangerous and tragic figures.
2014-09-0327 minGreek Theatre
Greek TheatreThe Oresteia (1999): Design ConceptsProfessor Oliver Taplin discusses elements of production design in Katie Mitchell's 1999 version of Aeschylus's The Oresteia.
2013-08-0502 minGreek Theatre
Greek TheatreThe Oresteia (1999): Use of MultimediaProfessor Oliver Taplin describes how live video projection formed part of Katie Mitchell's 1999 production of The Oresteia in the Cottesloe theatre.
2013-08-0502 minGreek Theatre
Greek TheatreThe Oresteia (1981): Music and LanguageProfessor Oliver Taplin explains the significance of music and poetry in Peter Hall's 1981 production of Aeschylus' The Oresteia, which used Tony Harrison's translation of the text and music composed by Harrison Birtwistle.
2013-08-0501 minGreek Theatre
Greek TheatreThe Oresteia (1981): From Epidaurus to the OlivierProfessor Oliver Taplin discusses the staging of the 1981 production of Aeschylus' The Oresteia, directed by Peter Hall and performed in both the Olivier Theatre in London and at Epidaurus in Greece.
2013-08-0501 minGreek Theatre
Greek TheatreThe Oresteia (1981): Use of MasksProfessor Oliver Taplin explores the use of masks in the choruses of Peter Hall's 1981 production of Aeschylus' The Oresteia. The masks used in the production were designed by Jocelyn Herbert
2013-08-0501 minFaculty of Classics
Faculty of ClassicsOliver Taplin on ClassicsProfessor Oliver Taplin, an authority on classics and the performance of ancient drama, talks about the subject and his research.
2009-04-2225 minInterviews with Oxonians
Interviews with OxoniansOliver Taplin on ClassicsProfessor Oliver Taplin, an authority on classics and the performance of ancient drama, talks about the subject and his research.
2008-09-1225 minIn Our Time
In Our TimeThe OdysseyMelvyn 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 love and existential angst. The story follows on from Homer's Iliad, and tells of the Greek hero Odysseus and his long attempt to get home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what has given the Odyssey such a fundamental position in the history of western idea...
2004-09-0928 minIn Our Time
In Our TimeThe EpicMelvyn 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 Gods to narrating tales of magic and supernatural creatures, it was the Greek and Roman poems of Homer and Virgil that underpinned and explained the position of men in the world. And it was these narratives of heroic actions and grand deeds that were to form a template...
2003-02-0628 min