Jasper Griffin Quotes

Jasper Griffin was a British classicist and academic. He was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford from 1992 until 2004. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. May 1937 – 22. November 2019
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Jasper Griffin Quotes

“Greek culture was competitive. Each successive historian and philosopher made a point of showing how he improved on his predecessor.”

The Oxford History of the Classical World (with John Boardman and Oswyn Murray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) P.5

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