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 Emily Greenwood FBA

Ancient Greek literature and cultural history in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE; responses to Greek and Roman classics from the 19th century to the present, especially in Black cultures.

Emily Greenwood FBA (credit David Milne)

Professor Denis Feeney FBA

Roman history and Latin literature of the Republic and early Principate, with a special interest in time, religion, and institutions of literary culture

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Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

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