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First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a
largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period.
Believing passionately in the prospect of a Liberal England and the
hope promised by the League of Nations, with Britain at its centre,
Murray argues that a secure future can only be obtained through
'equal law, good government and good faith'. Concentrating on a
number of country-based studies, the main focus is on how to avoid
the causes of international war; Murray supports the International
Financial Commission's recommendation that this could be partly
achieved through disarmament and freedom of trade. This is a
fascinating title that will be of particular value to history
students researching the inter-war period and the League of
Nations.
First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both
literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek
literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was
breaking apart, another group explore the background from which
Christianity arose, considering Paganism and the religious
philosophy at the time of Christ. These, in particular, display
Gilbert Murray's 'profound belief in ethics and disbelief in all
revelational religions' as well as his conviction that the roots of
our society lie within Greek civilization. Finally, there is an
interesting discussion of Order and the motives of those who seek
to overthrow it.
Gilbert Murray translated and made available to modern readers The
Epitrepontes of Menander or The Arbitration for the first time in
1945. The Arbitration is among the most frequently quoted and most
famous of Menander's plays and - being less farcical than others -
belongs to his mature style. With an interesting and informative
introduction, this translation will be of value to any student of
Classics and Ancient Greek drama.
First published in 1921, Gilbert Murray's treatise considers a
largely euro-centric foreign policy during the inter-war period.
Believing passionately in the prospect of a Liberal England and the
hope promised by the League of Nations, with Britain at its centre,
Murray argues that a secure future can only be obtained through
'equal law, good government and good faith'. Concentrating on a
number of country-based studies, the main focus is on how to avoid
the causes of international war; Murray supports the International
Financial Commission's recommendation that this could be partly
achieved through disarmament and freedom of trade. This is a
fascinating title that will be of particular value to history
students researching the inter-war period and the League of
Nations.
First published in 1938, these lectures argue that liberality is
the foundation of civilization. According to Gilbert Murray,
civilization provides the surplus of security, leisure and wealth
that makes liberality possible; a failure of liberality is the
surest test of the failure of a civilization. This is a fascinating
reissue that will be of great value to students with an interest in
political philosophy and the foundations of liberal society.
This book collects together four essays by the very well-known
academic Gilbert Murray that were first presented between 1914 and
1939. The author seeks to present a statement of his profound
belief in ethics and disbelief in revelational religions. The
philosophy of this great thinker is accessibly written while it
addresses deep questions of the nature of morality and the basis of
religions. This collection was first published in 1940.
First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both
literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek
literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was
breaking apart, another group explore the background from which
Christianity arose, considering Paganism and the religious
philosophy at the time of Christ. These, in particular, display
Gilbert Murray's 'profound belief in ethics and disbelief in all
revelational religions' as well as his conviction that the roots of
our society lie within Greek civilization. Finally, there is an
interesting discussion of Order and the motives of those who seek
to overthrow it.
This book collects together four essays by the very well-known
academic Gilbert Murray that were first presented between 1914 and
1939. The author seeks to present a statement of his profound
belief in ethics and disbelief in revelational religions. The
philosophy of this great thinker is accessibly written while it
addresses deep questions of the nature of morality and the basis of
religions. This collection was first published in 1940.
First published in 1938, these lectures argue that liberality is
the foundation of civilization. According to Gilbert Murray,
civilization provides the surplus of security, leisure and wealth
that makes liberality possible; a failure of liberality is the
surest test of the failure of a civilization. This is a fascinating
reissue that will be of great value to students with an interest in
political philosophy and the foundations of liberal society.
Gilbert Murray translated and made available to modern readers The
Epitrepontes of Menander or The Arbitration for the first time in
1945. The Arbitration is among the most frequently quoted and most
famous of Menander's plays and - being less farcical than others -
belongs to his mature style. With an interesting and informative
introduction, this translation will be of value to any student of
Classics and Ancient Greek drama.
In the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the
English-speaking world, Murray is a figure of immense importance.
He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance -
and its performance in verse - on both sides of the Atlantic,
bringing to the project his enormous personal prestige, especially
after his election to the Regius Chair of Greek at Oxford in 1908.
His Oxford Classical Text of all the complete plays of Euripides
lent scholarly weight to his theatrical enterprise; passionate
though he was about communicating Greek culture to the widest
possible public (by the 1920s over a quarter of a million copies of
the translations had been sold), he could never be written off as a
mere popularizer. Most significant of all, he laid down in the
early years of the twentieth century the terms on which scholar and
public alike have viewed Greek drama throughout the twentieth
century and into the twenty-first. It was Murray who insisted, from
the pulpit of the popular stage, on the political nature of Greek
tragedy (first connecting Troades with the fate of Melos); on its
historical resonances (Troades chiming in with his own distaste for
British conduct of the Boer War); on its social urgency (his
support for women's suffrage informing his Medea); on the religious
and anthropological assumptions that permeate it (his introduction
to Bacchae acknowledging his debt to Jane Harrison); and on the
remarkable psychological truth in its delineation of character
(emphasized in his notes on Electra). And on all this he insisted
as a man with a keen instinct for the theatre, who was deferred to
alike by actors (Sibyl Thorndike), by directors (Granville Barker)
and by fellowplaywrights (George Bernard Shaw). His was the voice
which had something wonderful to communicate and which could not be
ignored.
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