Jasper Griffin

Jasper Griffin (29. maí 1937 — 22. nóvember 2019) var breskur fornfræðingur og textafræðingur og var prófessor í grískum og latneskum bókmenntum við háskólann í Oxford from 1992 til 2004.

Griffin las fornfræði við Balliol College, Oxford (1956—1960) og var Jackson-félagi við Harvard University (1960—61). Þegar hann sneri aftur til Oxford varð hann Dyson-rannsóknarfélagi við Balliol College (1961—63) og kenndi fornfræði (1963—2004).

Jasper Griffin var kvæntur Miriam T. Griffin (fædd Dressler) í yfir fimmtíu ár, en hún er einnig markverður fornfræðingur.

Helstu verk

Bækur

• Virgil 2. útg. (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001).
• The art of snobbery (London: Robinson, 1998).
• Theocritus, the Iliad, and the East (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
• Realism in Alexandrian poetry: a review article (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1989).
• Homer: the Odyssey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
• Virgil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Heroic and unheroic ideas in Homer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
• The mirror of myth: classical themes & variations (London: Faber and Faber, 1986).
• Latin poets and Roman life (London: Duckworth, 1985).
• Snobs (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).
• Critical appreciations VI: Homer, Iliad 1.1-52 (ásamt Martin Hammond) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).
• Gods and goddesses (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).
• The Divine audience and the religion of the Iliad (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).
• Homer on life and death (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
• Homer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980).
• Homeric pathos and objectivity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).

Greinar

• „Homeric words and speakers“, Journal of Hellenic studies 106 (1986): 36-57.
• „From killer to thinker“, The New York Review (27. júní, 1985).
• „Augustus and the poets: "Caesar qui cogere posset"“, hjá Fergus Milar og Erich Segal (ritstj.), Caesar Augustus: seven aspects (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984): 189-218.
• „The creation of characters in the Aeneid“, hjá B.K. Gold (ritstj.), Literary and artistic patronage in ancient Rome (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982): 118-134.
• „Genre and real life in Latin poetry“, Journal of Roman studies 71 (1981): 39-49.
• „Haec super arvorum cultu“, Classical review 31 (1981): 23-37.
• „The fourth Georgic, Virgil, and Rome“, Greece and Rome 26 (1979): 61-80.
• „The epic cycle and the uniqueness of Homer“, Journal of Hellenic Studies 97 (1977): 39-53.
• „Propertius and Antony“, Journal of Roman Studies 67 (1977): 17-26.
• „Augustan poetry and the life of luxury“, Journal of Roman Studies 66 (1976): 87-105.

Ritstjórn

• Homer: Iliad, Book nine (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).
• Sophocles revisited: essays presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Ásamt John Boardman og Oswyn Murray. The Oxford history of Greece and the hellenistic world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
• Ásamt John Boardman og Oswyn Murray. The Oxford history of the Roman world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
• Ásamt John Boardman og Oswyn Murray. The Oxford history of the classical world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).