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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
Born:
May 29, 1937
Died:
November 22, 2019
(aged 82)
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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)
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