Gilbert Murray

(*1866 – †1957)

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Gilbert Murray. British classical scholar and public intellectual. · Biography · Works on Wikisource

Works

English

Classical studies

• Preface to Aristotle's The Art of poetry (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

Others

• 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

Translations

• Choephoroe (1923)
• Eumenides of Aeschylus (1926)
• The Oresteia (1928)
• The Suppliant Women (1930)
• Seven Against Thebes (1935)
• The Persians (1939)
• Antigone (1941)
• The Rape of the Locks: The Perikeiromene of Menander (1942)
• Fifteen Greek Plays (1943) with others
• The Arbitration: the Epitrepontes of Menander (1945)
• Oedipus at Colonus (1948)
• The Birds (1950)
• Euripides, Ion (1954)
• Collected Plays of Euripides (1954)
• The Knights (1956)