Gilbert Murray Reassessed: Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics

by Christopher Stray

Overview

This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the distinguished scholar and public figure Gilbert Murray (1866-1957). Sixteen contributors survey his childhood, his work in the theatre and in international relations, his Greek scholarship and contributions on religion and philosophy, his friendships (including those with Bertrand Russell and A. E. Housman), his long commitment to the Home University Library, his radio work, and his involvement with psychic research. The book opens with memoirs by two of his grandchildren. Two biographies of Murray were published in the 1980s, but the range of his activities makes it impossible for a single person to encompass them all adequately. This book, published 50 years after his death, aims to proved a comprehensive reassessment of a remarkable man.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199544974
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/02/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Wales Swansea.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Christopher Stray1. Remembering our grandfather, Ann Paludan & Alexander Murray2. A broken mirror: Gilbert Murray's reflections of an Australian childhood, Francis West3. Murray on Greek literature: the great/Greek man's burden, Mark Griffith4. Gilbert Murray and Greek religion, Robert Parker5. Murray and Greek texts, Christopher Collard6. Murray's translations of Greek tragedy, James Morwood7. From the Court to the National: the theatrical legacy of Gilbert Murray, Fiona Macintosh8. Murray and A. E. Housman, Malcolm Davies9. ‘Macte nova virtute, puer!': Gilbert Murray as mentor and friend to J. A. K. Thomson, Barbara McManus10. Gilbert Murray, Bertrand Russell, and the theory and practice of politics, William Bruneau11. Gilbert Murray and international politics, Martin Ceadel12. Retrieving cosmos: Gilbert Murray's thought on international relations, Peter Wilson13. The classicist as liberal intellectual: Murray and Alfred Zimmern, Julia Stapleton14. Gilbert Murray at the BBC, Mick Morris15. Yours obediently, Gilbert Murray: letters to The Times, William Bruneau & Russell Wodell

Editorial Reviews

"The sheer range of Murray's activities is well served by this collection.... the volume remains thematically coherent, imaginatively and sympathetically presenting Murray's many-faceted legacy."—Anna Vaninskaya, The Classical Review

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