The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
George Gilbert Aime Murray Quotes
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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| Birth: | 2nd January, 1866 |
| Death: | 20th May, 1957 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Professor, Translator |
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George Gilbert Aime Murray was born in Sydney, Australia. He was an Australian-born British professor and Translator. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford. In 1889–1899, he was Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow. After 1908 he was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. From 1925–1926 he was the Charles Elliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. He is perhaps now best known for his verse translations of Greek drama, which were popular and prominent in their time.
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