Oswyn Murray is an emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
He is author of Early Greece (1980, 1993), and an editor of The Greek City (1990), Sympotica (1990), In vino veritas (1995) and A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV (2007), and has written more than a hundred articles. He was history editor of the Oxford History of the Classical World (1986), and has been a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement on cultural and literary topics.