Jasper Griffin

Jasper Griffin (born May 29, 1937), was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford from 1992 until 2004.

Jasper Griffin read Classical Moderations and Greats at Balliol College, Oxford (1956-1960) and was Jackson Fellow at Harvard University (1960-61). On his return to Oxford he became Dyson Junior Research Fellow at Balliol (1961-63), Tutorial Fellow in Classics (1963-2004), and Senior Fellow (2000-04). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1986.^[1]

His wife of more than fifty years, Dr Miriam T. Griffin (née Dressler), is also a noteworthy classicist. They have three daughters: Julia, Miranda and Tamara.

Publications

Author

• Homer: the Odyssey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 2nd edn 2004)
• Homer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980, 2nd edn, London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001)
• Virgil (2nd edn, London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001)
• The art of snobbery (London: Robinson, 1998)
• Latin poets and Roman life (London: Duckworth, 1985, 2nd edn London: Bristol Classical Press, 1994)
• The mirror of myth: classical themes & variations (London: Faber and Faber, 1986)
• Homer on life and death (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
• Snobs (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)

Editor

• Homer: Iliad, Book nine (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
• Sophocles revisited: essays presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
• The Oxford history of the classical world (with John Boardman and Oswyn Murray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), subsequently published as The Oxford history of Greece and the Hellenistic world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 2nd edn 2001, illustrated edn 2001) and The Oxford history of the Roman world (with John Boardman and Oswyn Murray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 2nd edn 2001, illustrated edn 2001)

References

1. ^ British Academy fellowship record

External links

• Tom Bewley, 'The end of an era', Floreat Domus: Balliol College News Issue 10 (March 2004)