Professor Jasper Griffin FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1986
Year of birth
1937
Year of death
2019
Subjects
Classics

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor Emeritus of Classical Literature; University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College

2006 -

University of Oxford Professor Emeritus of Classical Literature; University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College

2006 -

University of Oxford Professor of Classical Literature and Public Orator

1992 -

Balliol College University of Oxford Fellow

1961 -

Publications

Homer on life and death 1980

Latin poetry and Roman life 1985

The mirror of myth 1987

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor M. M. McCabe FBA

Philosophy: Ancient philosophy especially Plato's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics; ethics; the philosophy of medicine

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Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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Professor Michael Silk FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature

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