OSWYN MURRAY

Fellow, Balliol College
Director, Bibliotheca Academica Translationum

Balliol College
Oxford,
OX1 3BJ
oswyn.murray@balliol.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests
Greek and Roman History, Greek Cultural History

 Selected Recent Publications

1994: 'Nestor's Cup and the Origins of the Symposium' in Apoikia: scritti in onore di Giorgio Buchner AION n.s. 1, AION, new series, Naples, 1, 47-54.
1997: 'The Beginnings of Greats: 1800-1872. II Ancient History' in The History of the University of Oxford. Vol. 6, Part I ed. M.G.Brock and M.C.Curthoys, Oxford., 520-542.
1998: 'Modello biografico e modello di regalita' in I Greci 2. III: Transformazioni ed. S.Settis, Einaudi, Turin, 249-69.
1998: Jakob Burckhardt, The Greeks and Greek Civilisation, translated by S.Stern: selection and introduction by Murray (with S. Stern), London and New York, xliv + 449.
2001: 'Herodotus and Oral History' (16-44) and "Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered" (314-325) in The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus, ed. N. Luraghi, Oxford.
2001: Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean in the Ancient World, introduction by Oswyn Murray, London.