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Penelope Murray read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she also took her Ph.D. She held Research Fellowships at King's College London and St. Anne's College, Oxford, before becoming a founder member of the Department of Classics at the University of Warwick. She was promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 1998, but has recently taken early retirement to have more time to write. She works on early Greek poetry and poetics, on philosophical responses to Athenian song-culture, especially the views of Plato, and on ancient literary criticism. She is also interested in the ways in which approaches to literature in the Westen tradition have been shaped by the classical inheritance. She has written extensively on these subjects, including ...more

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Classical Literary Criticism

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Plato: On Poetry: Ion/Repub...

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العبقرية: تاريخ الفكرة

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Imagination

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A Companion to Ancient Aest...

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Music and the Muses: The Cu...

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The Muses

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Greek Elegiac and Iambic Po...

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