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

“The word (classical) carries the implication that the works of art and literature produced in Graeco-Roman antiquity possess an absolute value, that they form the standard by which all others are to be judged.”

Jasper Griffin

The Oxford History of the Classical World (with John Boardman and Oswyn Murray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 3

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

Jasper Griffin

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

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