Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Jasper Griffin

Born: May 29, 1937
Died: November 22, 2019 (aged 82)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Homer on Life and Death (1980)
- Homer, The Odyssey (1980)
- Latin poets and Roman life (1985)
- Sophocles Revisited (1999)
- The Art of Snobbery (1998)






