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

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Professor Katherine Dunbabin FBA

Art and society in the Roman Empire: Roman mosaics as documents of social and cultural history; the art of the Roman banquet; the imagery of spectacular entertainments

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Professor Esther Eidinow FBA

Ancient Greek history and culture, especially religion and magic; interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical analysis.

Esther Eidinow FBA

Professor David Langslow FBA

Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts

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