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

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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.

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Jasper Griffin

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:
  1. Homer on Life and Death (1980)
  2. Homer, The Odyssey (1980)
  3. Latin poets and Roman life (1985)
  4. Sophocles Revisited (1999)
  5. The Art of Snobbery (1998)

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