Peter Jones (classicist)

{{Short description|British classical scholar (born 1942)}}

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Peter Vaughan Jones MBE (born 1942) is a Cambridge graduate with a doctorate on Homer.[http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35480521 Peter V. Jones] at the National Library of Australia He is a former senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and co-founded with Jeannie Cohen the Friends of Classics charity.{{cite news|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/11207/language-barriers/|title=Peter Jones says that universities are becoming factories of jargon and illiteracy|work=The Spectator|date=14 June 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512232613/http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/11207/language-barriers/|archive-date=12 May 2014}} He used to be a teacher but is now employed as a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He is the brother of the late David E. H. Jones.

Spokesman for the national Co-ordinating Committee for Classics, Jones penned the series QED and Eureka for the Daily Telegraph. These pieces were subsequently published as Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek by Duckworth, which has also accounted for his Classics in Translation (again from the Daily Telegraph) and Ancient and Modern (from his weekly column in The Spectator). Jones has collaborated for Cambridge on Reading Greek and Reading Latin.

He has published a book called "Vote For Caesar" (2008) about how ancient civilisations have solved the problems of today. Awarded the MBE in 1983, Jones has written widely on Homer.