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Gilbert Murray
1866–1957
A brilliant classicist and translator, he helped bring ancient Greek drama back to modern readers and theatergoers. His work combined deep scholarship with a strong belief that literature and public life still mattered in the present.
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
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
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
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 of his time after building his career in Britain. He studied at Oxford, taught at the University of Glasgow, and later served for many years as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.
He was especially admired for his translations of Greek playwrights including Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. Those versions helped introduce ancient drama to wider modern audiences and made him an important bridge between academic scholarship and the living stage.
Murray was also a public intellectual with strong interests beyond the classroom. Alongside his scholarly work, he wrote and spoke on international politics, liberal causes, and cooperation between nations, giving his career an influence that reached far beyond the study of the ancient world.