Gilbert Murray Reassessed

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

The sheer range of Murray's activities is well served by this collection...imaginatively and sympathetically presenting Murray's many-faceted legacy.

• 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