Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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)






