Oswyn Murray (born 26 March 1937) is a Fellow of

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and a distinguished classical scholar. Murray is joint editor with John Boardman and

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of the ''Oxford History of the Classical World''.

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was one of his students when he was reading Classics at Balliol College. He describes Johnson as "a buffoon and an idler". In 2018, when Johnson became prime minister, Murray sent his former student, in the ancient tradition, a ''renuntiatio amicitiae'', a public revocation of their friendship. Oswyn Murray is a great-grandson of the famous Scottish lexicographer James Augustus Henry Murray.

Selected publications

*''Sympotica: A symposium on the symposion''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. (Ed.) *''Early Greece''. Harvard University Press, 1993 (2nd edition).

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Picture of Oswyn Murray.
Living people Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1937 births {{UK-academic-bio-stub