Author:George Gilbert Aimé Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray
(1866–1957)

George Gilbert Aimé Murray

Works

Classical studies

• Aristotle on the art of poetry
• The Place of Greek in Education (1889) Inaugural Lecture
• A History of Ancient Greek Literature (1897)
• The Rise of the Greek Epic (1907; second edition, 1911) Harvard University lectures

  Third edition (1924) (transcription project)

• "The Early Greek Epic" (lecture) in Anthropology and the Classics (1908) (external scan)
• Greek Historical Writing, and Apollo: Two Lectures (1908) with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
• The Interpretation of Ancient Greek Literature (1909) Inaugural Lecture
• Ancient Greek Literature (1911)
• English Literature and the Classics (1912) section on Tragedy, editor George Stuart Gordon
• Four Stages of Greek Religion (1913)
• Euripides and His Age (1913) in Home University Library
• Hamlet and Orestes: A Study in Traditional Types (1914) Annual Shakespeare Lecture 1914
• The Stoic Philosophy (1915) Conway Lecture (transcription project)
• Aristophanes and the War Party, A Study in the Contemporary Criticism of the Peloponnesian War (1919) Creighton Lecture 1918, as Our Great War and The Great War of the Ancient Greeks (US, 1920)

Plays

• Andromache, a play in three acts

  first ed. (1900) (external scan)

  revised ed. (1914) (transcription project)

Others

• Gobi or Shamo (1889) novel
• Carlyon Sahib (1899), play
• Liberalism and the Empire: Three Essays (1900) with Francis W. Hirst and John L. Hammond
• Thoughts on the War (1914) pamphlet
• The Foreign Policy of Sir Edward Grey, 1906–1915 (1915), online text
• The International Crisis in Its Ethical and Psychological Aspects (1915) with others
• How Can War Ever Be Right? Oxford Pamphlets No 18/Ist Krieg je berechtigt?/La guerre. Peut-elle jamais se justifier? (1915)
• Impressions of Scandinavia in War Time (1916) pamphlet, reprint from the Westminster Gazette
• The United States and the War (1916) pamphlet
• The Way Forward: Three Articles on Liberal Policy (1917) pamphlet
• Great Britain's Sea Policy - A Reply to an American Critic (1917) pamphlet, reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly
• Faith, War and Policy (1917)
• Religio Grammatici: The Religion Of A Man Of Letters (1918) Presidential Address to the Classical Association 8 January 1918.
• The League of Nations and the democratic idea (1918)
• Foreword to My mission to London 1912–1914 by Prince Lichnowsky, the German ambassador in London who had warned Berlin that Britain would fight in August 1914. Cassel & Co. London. (1918)
• Satanism and the World Order (1920) Adamson Lecture
• The League and Its Guarantees (1920) League of Nations Union pamphlet
• Essays and Addresses (1921)
• The Problem of Foreign Policy: A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them (1921)
• Tradition and Progress (1922)

Translations

Plays of Euripides

• A text edition of Euripides, Fabulae, in three volumes (1901, 1904, 1910)
• Hippolytus; The Bacchae (1902)
• The Trojan Women
• The Bacchae of Euripides (1904)
• The Electra of Euripides (1905) [1913 reprint]
• Medea (1910)
• Iphigenia in Tauris, of Euripides (1911)
• Rhesus (1913)
• Alcestis (1915)

The Oresteia

• The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1920)
• The Choëphoroe (Libation-Bearers) of Aeschylus (1923)
• The Eumenides (The Furies) of Aeschylus (1925)

Others

• The Frogs of Aristophanes (1912) corrected edition
• Sophocles: Oedipus, King of Thebes (1911)
• The Story of Nefrekepta. From a Demotic Papyrus. (1911)

Works about Murray

• "Murray, George Gilbert Aimé," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Murray, George Gilbert Aimee, LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Murray, George Gilbert Aimé," in The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (pp. 338−339), by Philip Mennell, London: Hutchinson & Co. (1892)

Essays

• "Euripides and Professor Murray" in The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot (1918)