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A Short Biography of Gilbert Murray

Author Name:

Gilbert Murray

Born As:

George Gilbert Aimé Murray

Other Names:

Born:

3 Jan 1866

Died:

20 May 1957




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Classical scholar                          
Selected Works:

Translation:

Andromache - 1900
A text edition of Euripides, Fabulae, in three volumes - 1901, 1904, 1910
Euripides Translated Into English Rhyming Verse - 1902
Euripides, The Trojan Women - 1905
Electra of Euripides - 1905
Euripides Medea - 1910
Iphigenia in Tauris - 1911
Oedipus King of Thebes - 1911
The Story of Nefrekepta. From a Demotic Papyrus. - 1911
Rhesus of Euripides - 1913
Andromache - 1913
Alcestis - 1915
Agamemnon - 1920
Choephoroe - 1923
Eumenides of Aeschylus - 1926
The Oresteia - 1928
The Suppliant Women - 1930
Seven Against Thebes - 1935
The Frogs - 1938
The Persians - 1939
Antigone - 1941
Bacchae - 1941
The Rape of the Locks: The Perikeiromene of Menander - 1942
Fifteen Greek Plays - 1943 with others
The Arbitration: the Epitrepontes of Menander - 1945
Euripides Hippolytus - 1945
Oedipus at Colonus - 1948
The Birds - 1950
Euripides, Ion - 1954
Collected Plays of Euripides - 1954
The Knights - 1956

Classical studies:

The Place of Greek in Education - 1889 Inaugural Lecture
A History of Ancient Greek Literature - 1897
The Rise of the Greek Epic - 1907; second edition, 1911 Harvard University lectures
Greek Historical Writing, and Apollo: Two Lectures - 1908 with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
The Interpretation of Ancient Greek Literature - 1909 Inaugural Lecture
Ancient Greek Literature - 1911
English Literature and the Classics - 1912 section on Tragedy, editor George Stuart Gordon
Four Stages of Greek Religion - 1913
Euripides and his Age - 1913 in Home University Library
Hamlet and Orestes: A Study in Traditional Types - 1914 Annual Shakespeare Lecture 1914
The Stoic Philosophy - 1915 Conway Lecture
Aristophanes and the War Party, A Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War - 1919 Creighton Lecture 1918, as Our Great War and The Great War of the Ancient Greeks - US, 1920
Greek Historical Thought: from Homer to the Age of Heraclius - 1924 with Arnold J. Toynbee
Five Stages of Greek Religion - 1925
The Classical Tradition in Poetry - 1927 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Aristophanes: A Study - 1933
Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy - 1940
The Wife of Heracles - 1947
Greek Studies - 1947
Hellenism and the Modern World - 1953 radio talks

Other:

Gobi or Shamo - 1889 novel
Carlyon Sahib - 1899, play
Liberalism and the Empire: Three Essays - 1900 with Francis W. Hirst and John L. Hammond
Thoughts on the War - 1914 pamphlet
The Foreign Policy of Sir Edward Grey, 1906-1915 - 1915
The International Crisis in Its Ethical and Psychological Aspects - 1915 with others
How Can War Ever Be Right? Oxford Pamphlets No 18/Ist Krieg je berechtigt?/La guerre. Peut-elle jamais se justifier? - 1915
Impressions of Scandinavia in War Time - 1916 pamphlet, reprint from the Westminster Gazette
The United States and the War - 1916 pamphlet
The Way Forward: Three Articles on Liberal Policy - 1917 pamphlet
Great Britain's Sea Policy - A Reply to an American Critic - 1917 pamphlet, reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly
Faith, War and Policy - 1917
Religio Grammatici: The Religion Of A Man Of Letters - 1918 Presidential Address to the Classical Association January 8, 1918.
Foreword to My mission to London 1912-1914 by Prince Lichnowsky, the German ambassador in London who had warned Berlin that Britain would fight in August 1914. Cassel & Co. London. - 1918
Satanism and the World Order - 1920 Adamson Lecture
The League and Its Guarantees - 1920 League of Nations Union pamphlet
Essays and Addresses - 1921
The Problem of Foreign Policy: A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them - 1921
Tradition and Progress - 1922
The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future - 1930 Halley Stewart Lectures 1928
Augustan Book of Poetry - 1931 vol. 41
The Intelligent Man's Way To Prevent War - 1933 with others
Problems of Peace - Eighth Series - 1933 with others
Then and Now - 1935
Liberality and Civilisation - 1938 1937 Hibbert Lectures
Stoic, Christian and Humanist - 1940
The Deeper Causes of the War and its Issues - 1940 with others
World Order Papers, No. 2 - 1940 pamphlet, The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Anchor of Civilisation - 1942 Philip Maurice Deneke Lecture 1942
A Conversation with Bryce - 1943 James Bryce Memorial Lecture, 12 November 1943
Myths And Ethics, or Humanism And The World's Need - 1944 Conway Hall lecture
Humanism: Three B.B.C. talks - 1944 with Julian Huxley and Joseph Houldsworth Oldham
Victory and After - 1945
From the League to the U.N. - 1948
Spires of Liberty - 1948 with others
Andrew Lang: The Poet - 1948 Andrew Lang Lecture 1947
The Meaning of Freedom - 1956 essays, with others
Humanist Essays - 1964 taken from Essays and Addresses, Stoic, Christian and Humanist                          
Mother Agnes Ann Edwards
Father Sir Terence Aubrey Murray
Wife Mary Henrietta Howard.