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Complete plays; translated into English rhyming verse with commentaries and notes by Gilbert Murray.
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London, G. Allen & Unwin [1952]
1952
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| FormatText | Call numberJFC 73-1746 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Oedipus, King of Thebes, by Sophocles. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
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London, George Allen, 1912.
1912
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The Oxford book of Greek verse, chosen by Gilbert Murray [and others] With an introd. by C. M. Bowra.
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Oxford, Clarendon Press [1966]
1966
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| FormatText | Call number*R-NRH 74-5643 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Euripidis Fabulae. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gilbertus Murray.
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Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [1969-74]
1969-1902
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| FormatText | Call number*R-RMRR PA3973 .A2 1969 v. 3 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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Themis; a study of the social origins of Greek religion. With an excursis on the ritual forms preserved in Greek tragedy, by Gilbert Murray and a chapter on the origin of the Olympic games, by F. M. Cornford.
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Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1974 [c1927]
1974-1927
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| FormatText | Call number*R-RMRR BL785 .H45 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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The death of Iphigenia : for soprano and 13 instruments / Francis Routh.
Notated music
London : Redcliffe Edition, c1978.
1978
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberJMG 82-469 | Item locationOffsite |
Music for the Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides / Horace Middleton ; translation by Sir Gilbert Murray.
Notated music
New York City : E.F. Kalmus, c1933.
1933
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNG 84-177 | Item locationOffsite |
The Prussian and the poet : the letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Gilbert Murray (1894-1930) / [edited by] Anton Bierl, William M. Calder III, [and] Robert L. Fowler.
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Hildesheim : Weidmann, c1991.
1991
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 92-12126 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Greek historical thought from Homer to the age of Heraclius / introduction & translation by Arnold J. Toynbee; with two pieces newly translated by Gilbert Murray.
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London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent & sons ltd. ; New York : E. P. Dutton & co., 1924.
1924
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| FormatText | Call numberJFC 95-1618 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The outline of history, being a plain history of life and mankind, by H. G. Wells, written originally with the advice and editorial help of Mr. Ernest Barker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester and Professor Gilbert Murray, and illustrated by J. F. Horrabin.
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New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922.
1922
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1922 (3rd ed.)) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The outline of history: being a plain history of life and mankind, by H. G. Wells, written originally with the advice and editorial help of Mr.Ernest Barker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Roy [i.e Ray] Lankester, and Professor Gilbert Murray, illustrated with line drawings by J. F. Horrabin, and with reproductions of many famous paintings.
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New York, The Review of Reviews Co., 1922.
1922
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1922 (4th ed.)) v. 4 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1922 (4th ed.)) v. 3 | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1922 (4th ed.)) v. 2 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind / by H.G. Wells. Written originally with the advice and editorial help of Mr. Ernest Barker, Sir H.H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert Murray, and illustrated by J.F. Horrabin.
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Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Pub. Co., 1929.
1929
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1929) (1929) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind, by H. G. Wells; written with the advice and editorial help of Mr. Ernest Barker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert Murray, and illustrated by J. F. Horrabin.
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New York, The Macmillan Company, 1920.
1920
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1920) v. 2 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatText | Call numberBA (Wells, H. G. Outline of history. 1920) v. 2 | Item locationTemporary Storage |
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The outline of history, being a plain history of life and mankind, by H. G. Wells, written originally with the advice and editorial help of Mr. Ernest Barker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester and Professor Gilbert Murray, and illustrated by J. F. Horrabin.
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New York, The Macmillan Company, 1921.
1921
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Letters of Arthur George Heath, fellow of New College, Oxford, and lieutenant in the 6th batt. Royal West Kent regt., with memoir by Gilbert Murray.
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Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1917.
1917
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| FormatText | Call numberBTZE (Heath, A. G. Letters of Arthur George Heath) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The international crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects; lectures delivered in February and March, 1915, by Eleanor M. Sidgwick [and others], under the scheme for imperial studies in the University of London, at Bedford college for women.
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London, New York, H. Milford, 1915.
1915
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| FormatText | Call numberBTZE (International crisis in its ethical and psychological aspects) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Greek tradition: essays in the reconstruction of ancient thought; by J.A.K. Thomson ... with a preface by Prof. Gilbert Murray.
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London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd.; New York, The Macmillan Co. [1915]
1915
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| FormatText | Call numberBVF (Thomson, J. A. K. Greek tradition) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Aristophanes and the war party; a study in the contemporary criticism of the Peloponnesian war by Gilbert Murray.
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London, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1919.
1919
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| FormatText | Call numberBVG (Murray, G. Aristophanes and the war party) 1919 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Background and issues of the war, by H. A. L. Fisher [and others]
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Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1940.
1940
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| FormatText | Call numberBZAC (Background and issues of the war) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Liberalism and the empire; three essays by Francis W. Hirst, Gilbert Murray and J. L. Hammond.
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London, R. B. Johnson, 1900.
1900
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| FormatText | Call numberCX (Liberalism and the Empire) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The knights. Translated into English rhyming verse with introd. and notes by Gilbert Murray.
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London, Allen & Unwin [1956]
1956
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| FormatText | Call numberC-10 8 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Choëphoroe (Libation-bearers) of Aeschylus; translated into English rhyming verse, by Gilbert Murray ...
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New York [etc.] Oxford University Press, 1923.
1923
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| FormatText | Call numberC-10 2420 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Bacchae of Euripides : translated into English rhyming verse, with explanatory notes / by Gilbert Murray.
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London : G. Allen, 1910.
1910
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| FormatText | Call numberC-13 2118 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Hippolytus / translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
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London : G. Allen, 1908.
1908
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| FormatText | Call numberC-13 2124 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Greek historical thought from Homer to the age of Heraclius ... with two pieces newly translated by Gilbert Murray.
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Boston, Beacon press, 1950.
1950
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| FormatText | Call numberC-13 3190 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Fifteen Greek plays, translated into English by Gilbert Murray, Benjamin Bickley Rogers and others; with an introduction, and a supplement from the 'Poetics' of Aristotle, by Lane Cooper.
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New York, Oxford university press, 1943.
1943
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| FormatText | Call numberNSB (Murray) (Fifteen Greek plays) | Item locationOffsite |
Ten Greek plays, translated into English by Gilbert Murray and others; with an introduction by Lane Cooper, and a preface by H.B. Densmore.
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New York, Oxford University Press, 1929.
1929
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| FormatText | Call numberNSB (Ten Greek plays) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Aeschyli septem quae supersunt tragoediae, recensuit Gilbertus Murray ... Accedunt tetralogiarum ad has fabulas pertinentium fragmenta, elegiae, poetae vita, operum catalogus, Suidae et Marmoris parii testimonia.
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Oxonii, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1937.
1937
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCB (Murray) (Aeschylus. Aeschyli septem) | Item locationOffsite |
The Frogs of Aristophanes; translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray.
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New York, Longmans, Green, 1915.
1915
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| FormatText | Call number8-NSFN (Frogs) (Aristophanes. Frogs of Aristophanes) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The arbitration; the Epitrepontes of Menander, the fragments translated and the gaps conjecturally filled in by Gilber Murray.
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London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd [1945]
1945
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| FormatText | Call numberNSG (Menander. Arbitration) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The rape of the locks; the Perikeiromenê of Menander, the fragments translated and the gaps conjecturally filled in by Gilbert Murray ...
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London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd. [1942]
1942
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| FormatText | Call numberNSG (Menander. Rape of the locks) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Two plays of Menander: The rape of the locks, The arbitration. The fragments translated and the gaps conjecturally filled in by Gilbert Murray ...
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New York, Oxford University Press, 1945.
1945
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| FormatText | Call numberNSG (Menander. Two plays of Menander) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus; tr. into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes, by Gilbert Murray ...
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New York, London [etc.] Oxford University Press, 1920.
1920
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCN (Agamemnon) (Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 1920) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Eumenides (The furies) of Aeschylus, translated into rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray...
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London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd. [1925]
1925
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCN (Eumenides) (Aeschylus. Eumenides) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Oresteia / translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray.
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London : George Allen & Unwin, 1928.
1928
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCN (Aeschylus. Oresteia. 1928) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Prometheus bound; trans. into English rhyming verse with introduction and notes, by Gilbert Murray.
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New York, Oxford Univ. Pr. c1931
1931
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCN (Prometheus) (Aeschylus. Prometheus bound. 1931) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The seven against Thebes <Septem contra Thebas> translated into English rhyming verse with introduction and notes by Gilbert Murray...
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London, G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., [1935]
1935
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCN (Septem) (Aeschylus. Seven against Thebes) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Suppliant women <Supplices> translated into English rhyming verse, with introduction and notes by Gilbert Murray ...
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London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd. [1930]
1930
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| FormatText | Call numberNSCN (Aeschylus. Suppliant women) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Essays in honour of Gilbert Murray [by] the Rt. Hon. H.A.L. Fisher, Señor S.A. de Madariaga, Lt.-Col. Charles Archer [and others]
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London, G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd. [1936]
1936
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| FormatText | Call numberNRD (Essays in honour of Gilbert Murray) | Item locationOffsite |
The Antigone; translated into English rhyming verse with introduction and notes by Gilbert Murray ...
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London, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. [1941]
1941
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| FormatText | Call numberNSDL (Murray) (Sophocles. Antigone. London, 1941) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Antigone, translated into English rhyming verse, with introduction and notes, by Gilbert Murray.
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New York, Oxford University Press [c1941]
1941
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| FormatText | Call numberNSDL (Murray) (Sophocles. Antigone. New York, 1941) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Oedipus, king of Thebes, by Sophocles; tr. into English rhyming verse, with explanatory notes, by Gilbert Murray.
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New York, Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1911.
1911
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| FormatText | Call numberNSDN (Oedipus) (Sophocles. Oedipus) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The wife of Heracles; being Sophocles' play, The Trachinian women, tr. into English verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
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London, G. Allen & Unwin [1947]
1947
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| FormatText | Call numberNSDN (Sophocles. Wife of Heracles) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Greek poetry and life; essays presented to Gilbert Murray on his seventieth birthday, January 2, 1936.
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Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1967]
1967
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The Suppliant women of Euripides; the Oxford text of Professor Gilbert Murray; with introduction and explanatory notes by T. Nicklin.
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London, Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1936.
1936
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| FormatText | Call numberNSEE (Euripides. Suppliant women) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Electra of Euripides / translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
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London : G. Allen & Sons, 1910, c1906.
1910-1906
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| FormatText | Call number8-NSEL (Murray) (Euripides. Electra. 1910) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Rhesus of Euripides; translated into English rhyming verse, with explanatory notes, by Gilbert Murray.
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New York, Oxford university press, American branch; [etc., etc.] 1913.
1913
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| FormatText | Call numberNSEL (Murray) (Euripides. Rhesus) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Medea of Euripides, translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray.
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New York, Oxford University Press, 1912.
1912
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| FormatText | Call numberNSEL (Murray) (Euripides. Medea) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatText | Call number8-NSEL (Murray) (Euripides. Medea) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Alcestis of Euripides; tr. into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray ...
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New York, Oxford university press; [etc., etc.] 1915.
1915
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| FormatText | Call numberNSEN (Alcestis) (Euripides. Alcestis. 1915) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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