Oswyn Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oswyn Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oswyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholars interpreted ancient Greece in the light of contemporary political interests. Rich in stories and portraits of influential thinkers, The Muse of History is a powerful reminder that the meaning of the past is always made in and for the present.
The External Rapport on the Centre Gernet, 1996
The author publishes, with a short introduction to its context, the rapport he had written after the audit of the Centre Gernet he made in 1996 at a crucial moment of the its history, at the request of the EHESS
The Western Futures of Ancient History
The Symposion between East and West
The chapter discusses the origins of the practice of reclining at the symposion in the Greek world. It argues that this is to be found in a fusion of the (sitting) heroic feasting practices described by Homer with the marzeah mentioned in texts from the Near East from the third millennium bc. Sympotic or proto-sympotic iconography can be traced from Near Eastern seal-stones depicting seated banqueters through Phoenician metalware of the late eigh…
The Chorus of Dionysus: Alcohol and Old Age in the Laws
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The Culture of the Symposion
This chapter contains sections titled: The Study of the Symposion The Evidence Basic Rules Origins Rituals of Consumption Entertainments Social Functions Decline
Philosophy and Monarchy in the Hellenistic World
Ptolemaic Royal Patronage
The Hellenistic poets did of course experiment with forms of praise poetry. Alan Cameron is prepared to admit the existence of paeans probably sung at royal festivals or victory celebrations. But as he says, 'Theocritus 17 is the only complete poetic encomion to survive from the Hellenistic world'. It is for that reason that this chapter briefly considers this particular poem, because it seems to demonstrate most clearly the actual nature of Hell…
Book 3
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Histories
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Book 1
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A Commentary on Herodotus: Books I–IV
Dossier: Et si les Romains avaient inventé la Grèce ?
Ce numéro est entièrement consacré au dossier intitulé : Et si les Romains avaient inventé la Grèce ? Cette question souligne la perspective anthropologique dans laquelle les chercheurs se sont situés pour aborder la question de l’intererculturalité et de l’altérité incluse dans le monde gréco-romain. Il s’agit ici de comprendre la façon dont les Romains ont pu se définir en tant que tels en se référant à une Grèce imaginaire et idéale, culturell…
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. Originally published in two volumes, this new one-volume edition includes the text of the never-before published 'third…
The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World
Herodotus and Oral History
IT is generally agreed that Herodotus gathered most of his in formation from oral traditions. Even those who doubt this accept that he sought to represent his sources as oral, whether he was in venting them’ or describing them as oral when in fact they were written: ‘throughout the Histories Herodotus maintains the fiction that his work is an oral account, even where we know or surmise it to be based on written sources’. Since it seems to me that…
The Oxford History Of Greece And The Hellenistic World
A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast-it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science. This authoritative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Greek monarchies s…
The Oxford History of the Roman World
The Greeks and Greek civilization
A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World
More than four thousand years ago, a warrior people invaded the rugged hills and fertile plains of the Balkan Peninsula. These people were the ancient Greeks, and their legacy to modern global society is immense. The Greeks invented democracy, narrative history writing, stage tragedy and comedy, philosophy, biological study, and political theory. They introduced the alphabet to European languages and they developed monumental styles of architectu…
In Vino Veritas
Histories of pleasure, Oswyn Murray le vin dans une civilization de la biere - la Mesopotamie, Jean Bottero The Symposium in ancient Mesopotamia - archaeological evidence, Julian Edgewoth Reade il vino nell 'Antic Egitto, Gabriella Scandone Matthiae wine and death - east and west, Cristiano Grottanelli rite cultuel et rituel social - a propos de manieres de boire le vin dans les cites grecques (Pauline Schmitt Pantel) wine and truth in the greek …
Latin Poetry and the Classical Tradition: Essays in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
The idea of the shepherd king from Cyrus to Charlemagne, Oswyn Murray classical influences on medieval Latin views of poetic inspiration, Jan M. Ziolkowski the quotation in Goliardic poetry - the feast of fools and the Goliardic Strophe cum auctoritate, Paul Gerhard Schmidt the archpoet and the classics, Peter Dronke Walter of Chatillon and the Greeks, A.C.Dionisotti classical Latin satire and medieval elegiac comedy, Giovanni Orlandi the Pagan B…
The Greek city: From Homer to Alexander
Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture
Our understanding of the world is not static; it can both expand and contract, and it can also stagnate. In history the expansion of the known universe has come about from various causes, from scientific advance, the slow processes of trade and exploration, from, colonization, and especially from conquest. Periods of expansion produce often a re-evaluation of the external world, both that which was already known and that which was previously unkn…
The Greek city: From Homer to Alexander
The Oxford history of the classical world
Provides a historical framework of the Greco-Roman world focusing on the political and social history, literature, philosophy, the arts, etc.
Symposium and Genre in the Poetry of Horace
The concept of the genre is a problematical one, not least because each critical tradition uses the notion in different ways. My own approach is related to the needs and interests of the cultural historian; it will thus at least serve to clarify basic points of methodology if I first try to define what I mean by the genre. For me the genre takes its origin in the literary expression of basic social needs, and the differences between the genres be…
A Commentary on Herodotus: Books I–IV
History and reason in the ancient city
STORIA E RAZIONALISMO NELLA CITTA ANTICA Viene trattato l'intreccio tra storia e razionalismo nell'organizzazione dello Stato nel mondo antico. Si dimostra che la vita politica greca si basava sul razionalismo e che la Storia veniva usata, ma subordinandola a speculazioni razionali. Ciò è provato dall'importanza degli Atti di fondazione mitici e dalla manipolazione della documentazione storica per fini politici. Vengono trovate le origini del raz…
Athens: Its Rise and Fall
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. Originally published in two volumes, this new one-volume edition includes the text of the never-before published 'third…
Arnaldo Momigliano in England
Every year the ancient historians of all the universities of the British Isles used to gather for curious ritual in the small market town of Wellingborough. The ritual was known as a visit to the because once there had been small and rather seedy zoo in the town, whose animals were held by the more irreverent younger members to resemble their senior colleagues; the zoo had long since disappeared.2 The occasion originated in the 1920s when the fir…
The administration of a Fighting Service
The administration of a Fighting Service
British Naval Administration
Philodemus on the Good King According to Homer
In 1844 Italy was in travail; even the subjects of Ferdinand II Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies, knew it. The previous year had seen the failure of the ‘Moto di Savigno’, an attempt at a combined rising in Romagna and Calabria. In March occurred the massacres of Cosenza; on 12th June the Bandiera brothers set sail for the kingdom, only to be arrested on arrival and executed. The martyrdom inflamed liberals throughout Europe. It was appropriate …
B. Grenzheuser, Kaiser und Senat in der Zeit von Nero bis Nerva. Münster: The Author, 1964. Pp. XII + 271. Price not stated
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Hecataeus of Abdera and Pharaonic Kingship
Hecataeus of Abdera and Pharaonic Kingship
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access OSWYN MURRAY OSWYN MURRAY Balliol CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLII, January 1972, Pages 152-a–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLII.152-a Published: 01 January 1972
Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture
Our understanding of the world is not static; it can both expand and contract, and it can also stagnate. In history the expansion of the known universe has come about from various causes, from scientific advance, the slow processes of trade and exploration, from, colonization, and especially from conquest. Periods of expansion produce often a re-evaluation of the external world, both that which was already known and that which was previously unkn…
Plutarch and Rome
Hecataeus of Abdera and Theophrastus on Jews and Egyptians
Hecataeus of Abdera and Theophrastus on Jews and Egyptians
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access OSWYN MURRAY OSWYN MURRAY Balliol CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVIII, July 1973, Pages 613–614, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVIII.613 Published: 01 July 1973
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access OSWYN MURRAY OSWYN MURRAY Balliol CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVII, April 1973, Pages 407-b–408, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVII.407-b Published: 01 April 1973
Symposium and Genre in the Poetry of Horace
The concept of the genre is a problematical one, not least because each critical tradition uses the notion in different ways. My own approach is related to the needs and interests of the cultural historian; it will thus at least serve to clarify basic points of methodology if I first try to define what I mean by the genre. For me the genre takes its origin in the literary expression of basic social needs, and the differences between the genres be…
The Oxford history of the classical world
Provides a historical framework of the Greco-Roman world focusing on the political and social history, literature, philosophy, the arts, etc.
Arnaldo Momigliano
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Cities of reason
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The Ionian Revolt
The narrative of the Ionian Revolt marks the beginning of the full-scale account in Herodotus of political and military events shows that he and his contemporaries regarded it as an intrinsic part of the series of wars between Greece and Persia. For the Ionian Revolt, Herodotus is our only surviving literary source; yet his narrative has generally been regarded as one of the most problematical sections of his history. Many attempts have been made…
The Greek city: From Homer to Alexander
Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access OSWYN MURRAY OSWYN MURRAY Balliol CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVI, July 1990, Pages 707–708, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVI.707 Published: 01 July 1990
The Greek city: From Homer to Alexander
A ‘stork-vase’ from the Mola di Monte Gelato
UN ‘STORK-VASE’ DA MOLA DI MONTE GELATO Lo scavo di un ricco deposito di materiale databile all'inizio del II sec. d.C. ci ha restituito un unico vaso a vernice. Un pezzo di scarto fabbricato sul posto stesso (probabilmente un vicus in questo periodo) o nei suoi dintorni. Il vaso, firmato da Abaskantos ed Epinikos, porta una lunga iscrizione in greco intorno alla pancia: ‘Mi chiamano amico degli amici; se bevi capirai che no ti tradisco’. La ling…
History and reason in the ancient city
STORIA E RAZIONALISMO NELLA CITTA ANTICA Viene trattato l'intreccio tra storia e razionalismo nell'organizzazione dello Stato nel mondo antico. Si dimostra che la vita politica greca si basava sul razionalismo e che la Storia veniva usata, ma subordinandola a speculazioni razionali. Ciò è provato dall'importanza degli Atti di fondazione mitici e dalla manipolazione della documentazione storica per fini politici. Vengono trovate le origini del raz…
Arnaldo Momigliano in England
Every year the ancient historians of all the universities of the British Isles used to gather for curious ritual in the small market town of Wellingborough. The ritual was known as a visit to the because once there had been small and rather seedy zoo in the town, whose animals were held by the more irreverent younger members to resemble their senior colleagues; the zoo had long since disappeared.2 The occasion originated in the 1920s when the fir…
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