About Augustus Taber Murray
Augustus Taber Murray was an American classical scholar.
Biographical details
Basic information
| person Full name | Augustus Taber Murray |
| cake Date of birth | October 29, 1866 |
| event_busy Date of death | March 8, 1940 |
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| Name | MURRAY, Augustus Taber |
| Dates (life) | October 29, 1866 - March 8, 1940 |
| Education | A.B. Haverford, 1885; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1890; study at Leipzig & Berlin, 1890. |
| Professional experience | Prof. Gk. Earlham Coll. (Richmond, IN), 1888-90; Colorado Coll., 1891-2; Stanford U., 1892-1932; ann. prof. ASCSA, 1922-3. |
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Rutgers DBCS data for Augustus Taber Murray
Augustus Taber Murray has a dedicated entry page on the Rutgers database of classical scholars with the name. Included data from this source may provide the person's name, date of birth, date of death, major works, professional experience, obituaries, and compiler remarks.
About the Rutgers DBCS
Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars Est. 2018The Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars (DBCS) is a database of classical scholars that is owned and operated by Rutgers University. It is a project within the Department of Classics at the School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, NJ. Started in 2018, the database has over 900 records of scholars as of April 2020. The core set of records comes from a book by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., titled Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists.
Record numbers
| DBCS ID | 8962 (MURRAY, Augustus Taber) |
Main details
| Name | MURRAY, Augustus Taber |
| Dat of birth | October 29, 1866 |
| Born city | New York |
| Born state/country | NY |
| Parents | Robert Lindley & Ruth Sherman Taber M. |
| Date of death | March 8, 1940 |
| Death city | San Francisco |
| Death state/country | CA |
| Married | Nella Howland, 2 Sept. 1891. |
Career and works
| Education | A.B. Haverford, 1885; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1890; study at Leipzig & Berlin, 1890. |
| Professional experience | Prof. Gk. Earlham Coll. (Richmond, IN), 1888-90; Colorado Coll., 1891-2; Stanford U., 1892-1932; ann. prof. ASCSA, 1922-3. |
| Dissertation | "On Parody and Paratragoedia in Aristophanes, with Especial Reference to His Scenes and Situations" (Johns Hopkins, 1890); printed (Berlin, 1891). |
| Publications | Greek Composition for Colleges (Chicago, 1902); "The Interpretation of Euripides' Alcestis" Studies Gildersleeve (Baltimore, 1902) 329-338; The Antigone of Sophocles (trans, with H. R. Fairclough) (San Francisco, 1902); "On a Use of AOKQ," CP 5 (1910) 488-93; Anabasis of Xenophon (Chicago & New York, 1914); "On the Disposition of Spoil in the Homeric Poems," AJP 38 (1917) 186-93; The Odyssey of Homer (trans.), LCL, 2 vols. (London & New York, 1919); The Iliad of Homer (trans.), LCL, 2 vols. (London & New York, 1925); Four Plays of Euripides (trans.) (Stanford & London, 1931); The Private Orations of Demosthenes (trans.), LCL, vol. 4 (Cambridge & London, 1936), vol. 5 & 6 (1939); A Selection from the Religious Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (Philadelphia, 1934). |
| Notes | Murray was born on his grandfather's estate in Manhattan in the area now known as Murray Hill. He was one of those Americans who made their way not through scientific philology, like his mentor Gildersleeve, but rather, like his colleague H. R. Fairclough, through contributing highly useful, if arch and archaic, translations to the Loeb Series. His skill as a translator is evident in his Homer and Demosthenes volumes, still in print, though his predilection was for Greek Comedy. An active Quaker, he attended a Quaker college, was minister of the Friends' meeting in Palo Alto and was given a leave of absence by Stanford's president Hoover to serve as minister of the Friends' meeting in Washington, DC. |
| Sources | NatCAB 30:167-8; WhAm 1:883. |
| Author (entry) | Ward W. Briggs, Jr. |
Record notes
About these data
| Retrieval date | Apr. 19, 2020 |
| Copyright | DBCS @ Rutgers |
Bibliography
Briggs, Ward W. Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. London, United Kingdom: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Briggs, Ward W., Terry C. Brennan, et al. DBCS: Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. https://dbcs.rutgers.edu. Accessed April 1, 2020.
Homer. The Iliad / Vol. I. With an English translation by A.T. Murray.. Translated by Augustus T. Murray. 2 vols. (vol. 1). London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1928. [Books I-XII]
Homer. The Iliad / Vol. I. With an English translation by A.T. Murray.. Translated by Augustus T. Murray. 2 vols. (vol. 2). London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. [Books XIII-XXIV]
Murray, Augustus T., trans. "The Iliad." In The Iliad. With an English Translation by A.T. Murray. 2 vols. (vols. 1-2), , 2-579 [vol. 1]; 2-623 [vol. 2], authored by Homer. London, England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1928 and 1954.
