Jasper Griffin
Jasper Griffin is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include Homer on Life and Death. (June 2008)
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June 26, 2008: Virgil Lives!
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Michael C.J. Putnam
June 12, 2008: Mad About the Boy
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
December 6, 2007: East vs. West: The First Round
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World by Paul Cartledge
September 21, 2006: The Hero's Wife Speaks
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
March 9, 2006: 'The True Epic Vision'
Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
October 21, 2004: The Myth of the Olympics
The Ancient Olympics: A History by Nigel Spivey
Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens by Panos Valavanis
Olympics in Athens, 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller
Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics by Alexander Kitroeff
December 18, 2003: It's All Greek!
The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse by Paul Cartledge
Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past by Jenifer Neils and John H. Oakley
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary Lefkowitz
May 1, 2003: That Old Black Magic
Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 translated from the Latin and with commentary by Margaret Graver
Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden
July 18, 2002: The Comedy Murder Case
The Death of Comedy by Erich Segal
November 1, 2001: The Unkindest Cut
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein
Eunuchs and Castrati by Piotr O. Scholz
Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood by Gary Taylor
April 26, 2001: From Abakainon to Zygris
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
September 21, 2000: The Invented Man
Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe
June 15, 2000: Bizarre New World
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World edited by G.W. Bowersock, by Peter Brown, by Oleg Grabar
June 15, 2000: Castelives (letter)
January 20, 2000: The Virtuous East (letter)
November 4, 1999: The Myth of Myths
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger
May 6, 1999: Plato's Grand Design
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form by Charles H. Kahn
October 8, 1998: Chopping Off the Golden Bough
Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf, translated by Franklin Philip
The Great God Pan: The Survival of an Image by John Boardman
June 25, 1998: Fun City
Athens from Alexander to Antony by Christian Habicht
December 18, 1997: Their Jewish Problem
Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World by Peter Schäfer
October 9, 1997: Show Us You Care, Ma'am
November 28, 1996: Bringing Homer Home
The Odyssey of Homer translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
November 14, 1996: Gifts of the Greeks
Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace
July 11, 1996: 'Black Athena' Revisited (letter)
June 20, 1996: Anxieties of Influence
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History by Mary R. Lefkowitz
Black Athena Revisited edited by Mary R. Lefkowitz, edited by Guy MacLean Rogers
The Western Greeks edited by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. Catalog of the exhibition. an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, through December 8.
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity a Bollingen Series XXXV by John Boardman
April 20, 1995: Cosmic Leg-Pull
Ovid: The Poems of Exile translated with introduction, notes, and glossary by Peter Green
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann, edited by James Lasdun
December 22, 1994: New Heaven, New Earth
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn
October 6, 1994: The Long Latin Line
Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte, translated by Joseph B. Solodow, by revised by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most
October 7, 1993: In Love with Love
Love and Friendship by Allan Bloom
June 24, 1993: Ancient Hearts on Fire
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel
Classical and Modern Interactions: Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturism, Decline, and other Issues by Karl Galinsky
May 27, 1993: Bisexuality in the Ancient World (letter)
April 22, 1993: Alive in Myth
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks
October 22, 1992: The Love that Dared to Speak its Name
Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella, translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
May 16, 1991: Decadence Revisited
Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age by Peter Green
The Hellenistic Aesthetic by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler
Hellenism in Late Antiquity by G.W. Bowersock
Greek Sculpture by Andrew Stewart
October 25, 1990: Ancient Kids
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens by Mark Golden
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire by Thomas Wiedemann
April 26, 1990: Greek Love: An Exchange
March 29, 1990: Love and Sex in Greece
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece by John J. Winkler
October 26, 1989: A Front-Line Classicist
Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox
September 28, 1989: 'Black Athena' (letter)
September 28, 1989: 'Black Athena' (letter)
July 20, 1989: Precious Stones
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles by Christopher Hitchens, with essays by Robert Browning, by Graham Binns
The Elgins, 1766–1917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and Their Wives by Sydney Checkland
June 15, 1989: Who Are These Coming to the Sacrifice?
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785–1985 by Martin Bernal
March 16, 1989: Greeks, Romans, Jews & Others
Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction by Barry Cunliffe
The Jews in the Greek Age by Elias J. Bickerman
September 29, 1988: Playing to Win
The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity edited by Wendy J. Raschke
Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport by David Sansone
June 16, 1988: O Mighty Caesar! (letter)
May 12, 1988: 'Here was a Caesar!'
The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, A Reconstruction by Arthur D. Kahn
Caesar by Christian Meier
April 9, 1987: The Father of It All
The History by Herodotus, translated by David Grene
June 27, 1985: From Killer to Thinker
Greek Religion by Walter Burkert, translated by John Raffan
Books by Jasper Griffin
Homer, the Odyssey (1987)
The Mirror of Myth: Classical Themes & Variations (1986)
Virgil (1986)
Latin Poets and Roman Life (1985)
Homer (1980)
Homer on Life and Death (1980)