Professor Oliver Taplin was Tutorial Fellow of Magdalen College at Oxford from 1973 to 2008. As an Emeritus Fellow and Professor, he remains actively involved with the APGRD and related projects. He has always been concerned to disseminate interest in the ancient Greek world and in its reception. He has worked with productions in the theatre, including The Oresteia at the National Theatre (1980-1981), The Thebans at the RSC (1991-1992), The Oresteia at the National Theatre (1999-2000), and Swallow Song (Los Angeles 2004, Oxford and London 2006). After concentrating on making translations of Greek tragedies for some years, he is now (2024) nearing completion of a book about why theatre at Athens became so rapidly and widely popular with audiences; its provisional title is: TRAGEDY – the first 50 years. The APGRD combines his interests both in performance and in reception.