Murray, Gilbert
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1866-1957) Australian-born classical scholar, in UK from 1877, best known for his many translations from the Greek classic drama, for his Utopian sense that contemporary society could be changed by persuasion (justified in the case of women's suffrage) and for seminal studies such as The Rise of the Greek Epic (1907) and Four Stages of Greek Religion (1912). The Future of the British Empire in Relation to the League of Nations (1928 chap) anticipates in gentlemanly cadences the possibility of World War Two. His only substantial work of fiction, Gobi or Shamo: A Story of Three Songs (1889), as by G G A Murray, is a Lost-Race tale featuring a race of Hellenes whose ethical precepts are unsparingly ancient but who have also mastered Weapons of mass destruction. [JC]
George Gilbert Aimé Murray
born Sydney, New South Wales: 2 January 1866
died Oxford, Oxfordshire: 20 May 1957
works
- Gobi or Shamo: A Story of Three Songs (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1889), as by G G A Murray [hb/]
nonfiction (highly selected)
- The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard University (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1907) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Four Stages of Greek Religion: Studies Based on a course of Lectures Delivered in April 1912 at Columbia University (New York: Columbia University Press, 1912) [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Future of the British Empire in Relation to the League of Nations: The Basil Hicks Lecture Delivered to the University of Sheffield, March 8th, 1928 (Sheffield, England: J W Northend, 1928) [chap: pb/]
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