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Gilbert Murray
1866–1957
A brilliant classicist who helped bring Greek drama back to modern audiences, he was also a public thinker deeply involved in internationalist causes. His life joined scholarship, translation, and public debate in a way that still feels strikingly modern.
11 Audiobooks
Carlyon Sahib: A Drama in Four Acts
by Gilbert Murray
Andromache: A Play in Three Acts
by Gilbert Murray
Five Stages of Greek Religion
by Gilbert Murray
The United States and the War
by Gilbert Murray
Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic, reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'
by Gilbert Murray
The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus
by Gilbert Murray
Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
by Sir Arthur Evans, W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler, F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Sir John Linton Myres
The Problem of Foreign Policy A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them
by Gilbert Murray
Euripides and His Age
by Gilbert Murray
Ιστορία της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας
by Gilbert Murray
The international crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects : Lectures delivered in February and March, 1915, under the scheme for imperial studies in the University of London, at Bedford college for women
by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Bernard Bosanquet, A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks, Gilbert Murray, George Frederick Stout
About the author
Born in Sydney in 1866, Gilbert Murray became one of the best-known classical scholars in Britain. He studied at Oxford, taught Greek at the University of Glasgow while still very young, and later served as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1908 to 1936.
He was especially admired for his translations of Greek playwrights including Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. Those versions helped introduce ancient drama to new readers and theater audiences, and they played a major part in the revival of Greek tragedy on the modern stage.
Murray was more than an academic specialist. He was a prominent public intellectual who wrote and spoke on politics, education, religion, and international cooperation, and he was closely associated with the League of Nations. He died in 1957, remembered both for his scholarship and for the unusually wide public reach of his ideas.