Editing Gilbert Murray (section)

=== Academic career ===
From 1889 to 1899, Murray was Professor of Greek at the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref>The most famous of his students there was [[John Buchan]], whom Murray helped to take a further degree at Oxford.[http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/samples/classics.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204192919/http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/samples/classics.htm|date=4 February 2012}} Others were [[H. N. Brailsford]] and [[Janet Spens]]. He left Glasgow because his health broke down.</ref> There was a break in his academic career from 1899 to 1905, when he returned to Oxford; he interested himself in dramatic and political writing. After 1908 he was [[Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)|Regius Professor of Greek]] at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>He was a noted and popular lecturer. Amongst those on whom he had a particular influence was [[Gilbert Highet]].[http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1999/1999-01-08.html]</ref> In the same year he invited [[Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff]] to Oxford, where the Prussian philologist delivered two lectures: ''Greek Historical Writing'' and ''Apollo'' (later, he would replicate them in Cambridge).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Greek historical writing, and Apollo; two lectures delivered before the University of Oxford June 3 and 4, 1908 : Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, 1848–1931 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028260630|access-date=2020-07-23|website=Internet Archive|language=en}}</ref><ref>The correspondence between Murray and Wilamowitz is now published in ''The Prussian and the Poet. The Letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Gilbert Murray (1894–1930)'', ed. by A. Bierl, W. M. Calder III, R. L. Fowler (Hildesheim 1991).</ref>

From 1925 to 1926, he was the [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures|Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer]] at [[Harvard University]].