Gilbert W. Murray

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Gilbert W. Murray

English anthropologist

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tragedy
Later Greek drama
A 20th-century British Classical scholar, Gilbert Murray, used the phrase “the failure of nerve” to describe the late Greek world. It may, indeed, provide a clue to what happened. On the other hand, according to the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), a quite different…
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A 20th-century British Classical scholar, Gilbert Murray, used the phrase “the failure of nerve” to describe the late Greek world. It may, indeed, provide a clue to what happened. On the other hand, according to the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), a quite different…
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Nilo-Saharan languages
History of classification
…Sir Harry Johnston, Johannes Lukas, G.W. Murray, Roland C. Stevenson, and Archibald N. Tucker, whose pioneering descriptive and comparative work had resulted in more detailed knowledge of the language map of eastern and central Africa.
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…Sir Harry Johnston, Johannes Lukas, G.W. Murray, Roland C. Stevenson, and Archibald N. Tucker, whose pioneering descriptive and comparative work had resulted in more detailed knowledge of the language map of eastern and central Africa.
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