Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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)