Gilbert Murray

The great classicist Gilbert Murray wrote that The Persians was "a direct historical record" and that it was "not only an eyewitness account but by a combatant, and one who, beside his Greek sense of poetry, had also the peculiar Greek power of describing what he saw".

The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010

In April, after the bombing death of Gilbert Murray, chief lobbyist for the California Forestry Association, Unabomer called the FBI "a joke."

Chasing The Unabomer 2008

The one he sent in April not only killed timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray, it wrecked his entire office.

Flummoxing The Feds 2008

Taimber-industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray is killed by a bomb at the California Forestry Association17 June 20, 1995 Los Angeles, Calif.

Chasing The Unabomer 2008

I should pass my own days in the exclusive society of Professor Gilbert Murray and Sir Gilbert Parker; whom I can conceive as differing on some points from each other, and on some points from me.

G.K. Speaks - The Family and The Feud 2007

In January 1925, Gilbert Murray, a professor and a member of the British Society for Psychical Research, reported that he was able to successfully read thoughts that had been announced aloud by his friend the Earl of Balfour, even though Murray had left the room and was thirty-five feet away at the time.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

In January 1925, Gilbert Murray, a professor and a member of the British Society for Psychical Research, reported that he was able to successfully read thoughts that had been announced aloud by his friend the Earl of Balfour, even though Murray had left the room and was thirty-five feet away at the time.

The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

Another great classicist cautions that “we must not forget the power of hallucinations …” (Gilbert Murray 1955, 25); “primitive men seem to have dealt more freely than we generally do with apparitions and voices and daemons of every kind” (26).

The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

“I am conscious”: Arnold Toynbee, letter to Gilbert Murray, 1930, quoted in ibid., p.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005

“I am conscious”: Arnold Toynbee, letter to Gilbert Murray, 1930, quoted in ibid., p.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005