Oliver Taplin
Classics Scholar and Translator at Oxford University
3 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Edith Hall
Covers topics in categories such as:
Antigone
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Sophocles' tragedy of dilemmas, where King Creon threatens death to anyone who buries a traitor and that traitor's sister, Antigone, defies him.
24 March 2022
Also featuring: Edith Hall, Lyndsay Coo
The Odyssey
Melvyn Bragg discusses Homer’s Odyssey, the epic story of the Greek hero Odysseus’ journey back from Troy, and its foundational position in the history of western literature and ideas.
9 September 2004
Also featuring: Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall
The Epic
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the epic form, from it's creation by Homer to its more modern incarnations in the hands of James Joyce, J R R Tolkien and Philip Pullman.
6 February 2003
Also featuring: John Carey, Karen Edwards