Gilbert Murray reassessed : hellenism, theatre, and international politics
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Gilbert Murray reassessed : hellenism, theatre, and international politics
Oxford University Press, 2008
- : pbk
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  Saga
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  Kumamoto
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Originally published: 2007
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Remembering our grandfather
- 2. A broken mirror: Gilbert Murray's reflections of an Australian childhood
- 3. Murray on Greek literature: the great/Greek man's burden
- 4. Gilbert Murray and Greek religion
- 5. Murray and Greek texts
- 6. Murray's translations of Greek tragedy
- 7. From the Court to the National: the theatrical legacy of Gilbert Murray
- 8. Murray and A. E. Housman
- 9. 'Macte nova virtute, puer!': Gilbert Murray as mentor and friend to J. A. K. Thomson
- 10. Gilbert Murray, Bertrand Russell, and the theory and practice of politics
- 11. Gilbert Murray and international politics
- 12. Retrieving cosmos: Gilbert Murray's thought on international relations
- 13. The classicist as liberal intellectual: Murray and Alfred Zimmern
- 14. Gilbert Murray at the BBC
- 15. Yours obediently, Gilbert Murray: letters to The Times
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