Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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)