Jasper Griffin

Jasper Griffin (b. May 29, 1937), MA (Oxon), FBA, 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).

His wife of nearly 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)

*"The Aeneid" (tr. Cecil Day Lewis, introduction and notes by Jasper Griffin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, 2nd edn 1998)

*"Latin poets and Roman life" (London: Duckworth, 1985, 2nd edn London: Bristol Classical Press, 1994)

*"Theocritus, the Iliad, and the East" (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

*"Realism in Alexandrian poetry: a review article" (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1989)

*"Heroic and unheroic ideas in Homer" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)

*'Homeric words and speakers', "Journal of Hellenic studies" 106 (1986), 36-57

*"The mirror of myth: classical themes & variations" (London: Faber and Faber, 1986)

*"Virgil" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)

*'From killer to thinker' (review of Walter Burkert, "Greek religion" [tr. John Raffan, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985] ), "The New York Review" (June 27 1985)

*'Augustus and the poets: "Caesar qui cogere posset"', in Fergus Millar and Erich Segal, eds., "Caesar Augustus: seven aspects" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 189-218
*"Homer on life and death" (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)

*'The creation of characters in the Aeneid', in B. K. Gold, ed., "Literary and artistic patronage in ancient Rome" (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982), pp. 118-134

*"Critical appreciations VI: Homer, Iliad 1.1-52" (with Martin Hammond, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)

*"Snobs" (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982)

*'Genre and real life in Latin poetry', "Journal of Roman studies" 71 (1981), 39-49

*'Haec super arvorum cultu', "Classical review" 31 (1981), 23-37

*"Bibliography" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980)

*"The Divine audience and the religion of the Iliad" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980)

*"Gods and goddesses" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980)

*'The fourth Georgic, Virgil, and Rome', "Greece and Rome" 26 (1979), 61-80

*'The epic cycle and the uniqueness of Homer', "Journal of Hellenic Studies" 97 (1977), 39-53

*'Propertius and Antony', "Journal of Roman Studies" 67 (1977), 17-26

*'Augustan poetry and the life of luxury', "Journal of Roman Studies" 66 (1976), 87-105

*"Homeric pathos and objectivity" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976)

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)

*"The Oxford history of the Roman world" (with John Boardman and Oswyn Murray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 2nd edn 2001, illustrated edn 2001)

External links

* [http://alumni.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/fd2004/era.asp Tom Bewley, 'The end of an era', "Floreat Domus: Balliol College News" Issue 10 (March 2004)]