Oswyn

Murray

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In my 84th year I wish to introduce more readers to my academic work. This website enables you to access my published and unpublished activities, with the help of the bibliography, through the BAT website and through PDFs. If you are interested please contact me at the email address below.

Welcome

Biography

Oswyn Murray is an emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, a former Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

He is author of Early Greece (1980, 1993), and an editor of The Greek City (1990), Sympotica (1990), In vino veritas (1995) and A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV (2007), and has written almost two hundred articles. His latest academic book collects all his writings on The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style (2018). He was history editor of the Oxford History of the Classical World (1986), and was once a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement on cultural and literary topics.

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Current Research

2020

I am currently working on a history of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity from the 18th century to the present day, provisionally entitled 'The Muse of History'. I am also writing a new edition of Early Greece, and preparing a continuation with colleagues of the commentary on Herodotus.

In the evenings, since we live in interesting times, I keep a memory diary under the title `And Suddenly It's Evening'.