Oswyn Murray

Oswyn Murray (* 1937 ) is a British ancient historian . Murray was a student of Arnaldo Momigliano . He wrote his dissertation on theories about the monarchy in the world of Hellenism .

Life

From 1968 onwards, Murray was a professor at Oxford University and a fellow at Balliol College there , both until he retired in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . Murray was visiting professor in Rome, Paris and the USA (MIT and Bryn Mawr). He is editor of the Fontana History of the Ancient World .

Murray's publications deal mainly with monarchy, political thought and rationality in ancient Greece. Murray is best known for his standard work Early Greece , which has also been translated into German. Together with Chryssanthi Avlami, he is the founder and director of a larger international research project, the Biblioteca Academica Translationum , which aims to "examine the transfer of knowledge and the mutual reception of European research in the field of classical studies in the 18th and 19th centuries" .

Murray taught, among other things, the future British Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he was studying Classics at Balliol College . In 2018 he sent his former pupil in the ancient tradition a renuntiatio amicitiae , a public revocation of their friendship.

Fonts

• Early Greece . Fontana, London 1980, ISBN 0006333486 , and Harvester Press, Brighton 1980, ISBN 0-391-00767-X ( Fontana History of the World series ).
  • German edition: Early Greece . Translated by Kai Brodersen . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-423-04400-4 .
• Edited together with John Boardman and Jasper Griffin : The Oxford history of the classical world . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1986, ISBN 0198721129 .
• Sympotica: a symposion on the symposion . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-814861-5 ; Reprinted 1999, ISBN 0-19-815004-0 .
• Edited with Simon Price : The Greek city from Homer to Alexander . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-814888-7 ; Reprinted in 2002, ISBN 0-19-814791-0 .

Murray is also editor of the commentary on Herodotus : A commentary on Herodotus: books I – IV by David Asheri, Alan Lloyd and Aldo Corcella (2-volume English edition of the 5-volume Italian original), Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 0-19-814956-5 . Murray has also edited and initiated works by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Jacob Burckhardt and Fernand Braudel , among others .

Web links

• Short biography (PDF; 10 kB) at europaeum.org
• Homepage of the Biblioteca Academica Translationum