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).