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 Catherine Morgan FBA

Classical archaeology of the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea; Greek political organisation; Greek religion; island studies; Archaic poetry

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Professor Catharine Edwards FBA

Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature (particularly Seneca and Cicero); the reception of Roman antiquity in the 19th century

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