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Gilbert Murray
1866–1957
A brilliant classicist who helped bring ancient Greek drama back to modern audiences, he was also a lively public thinker who spoke out on war, peace, and international cooperation. His writing joined deep learning with a clear wish to connect the ancient world to the problems of his own time.
10 Audiobooks
Carlyon Sahib: A Drama in Four Acts
by Gilbert Murray
The United States and the War
by Gilbert Murray
Andromache: A Play in Three Acts
by Gilbert Murray
The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus
by Gilbert Murray
The Problem of Foreign Policy A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them
by Gilbert Murray
Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic, reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly'
by Gilbert Murray
Five Stages of Greek Religion
by Gilbert Murray
Euripides and His Age
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
Ιστορία της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας
by Gilbert Murray
About the author
Born in Sydney on January 2, 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 for many years as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.
He was especially admired for his translations of Greek tragedians and comedians, including Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. Those versions helped make ancient drama feel alive for modern readers and theatergoers, and they played a major part in renewing interest in Greek plays on the English-speaking stage.
Murray was more than an academic. He was a public intellectual deeply involved in the debates of his age, supporting liberal causes and working for international peace through the League of Nations movement. He died on May 20, 1957, remembered both for his scholarship and for his belief that the humanities mattered in public life.