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 Richard Hunter FBA

Greek and Latin literature, particularly of the Hellenistic and imperial periods, and the ancient reception and criticism of classical texts

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Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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Professor Simon Goldhill FBA

The study of ancient Greek literature and culture, and its reception, especially in the nineteenth century

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