Quote of the day
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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)






