Gilbert Murray

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Noun1.Gilbert Murray - British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)Gilbert Murray - British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957)
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Among his topics are rated R: adaptation, violence, revolution; Dionysus, Lord and Savior: Gilbert Murray, The Bacchae of Euripides (1902); Dionysus in Ireland: Derek Mahon, The Bacchae: after Euripides (1991); and Robin Robertson, Euripides: Bacchae (2014) and Anne Carson, Euripides: Bakkai (2015).
FURTHER to my letter printed in the Daily Post on April 6, I am moved to write again regarding the conviction of Christian pacifists that war is evil and contrary to Christ's teaching, by quoting from the 1943 Bryce Memorial Lecture delivered by the much respected Professor Gilbert Murray:-"Whatever the original, or alleged original, cause of any war, it settles down in time to the mere pursuit of what Thucydides calls 'arche; (mastery); the mere question of 'we' or 'they'.
Wentworth, John Lang, Rosa Praed, and Gilbert Murray to the current "ex" generation including Nikki Gemmell , Meaghan Delahunt, and M.J.
Woolf must have known the play; Gilbert Murray's 1915 translation includes an introduction that emphasizes the unusual strength of the heroine as well as Euripides' apparent sympathy with Admetus, both elements of the play that would have appealed to Woolf.
An individual who necessarily figures large in any history of Greek drama in translation and performance in this period--owing to the outstanding popularity of his English rhyming verse translations of Greek drama as both reading and acting editions, in Britain and overseas--is Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1908 to 1936.
1's serve (51 per cent) The victory was Murray's tenth success in 15 days since linking up with new coach Brad Gilbert Murray broke Federer's serve seven times.
The exhibition traces the mania for all things Greek during the past century: original artifacts of Margaret Anglin's Electra and Medea of 1915; Isadora Duncan's personal copies of the Gilbert Murray translations of Trojan Women; photos of Provincetown Playhouse founder George Cram Cook in Delphi; the choreographic notes from the Federal Theatre Project's The Trojan Incident of 1938; and a special focus on the communal nature of the Living Theatre's Antigone, Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69 and Andre Serban and Elizabeth Swados's Fragments of a Trilogy.
He has also received the Gilbert Murray Trust Junior Award (for graduates demonstrating commitment to the purposes and work of the United Nations) and a Chevening scholarship from the British High Commission and British Council.
His language and imagery are an improbably beautiful fusion of the Elizabethan Bible, the Gilbert Murray classics, and the evening news.
Mrs Connie Murray, widow of killed timber industry lobbyist Mr Gilbert Murray, told FBI chaplain Mr Mark OSullivan she was "extremely disappointed" at the delay yesterday.
Gilbert Murray, an industry veteran and president of the association for the past year, was killed when he attempted to open the U.S.
Vedrenne and introduced the plays of Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, John Galsworthy, and John Masefield, as well as Gilbert Murray's translations from Greek.
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