Elizabeth Minchin

Elizabeth Hume Minchin is an Australian classical philologist and university professor .

She received her first university degree from the University of Sydney . She then taught Latin , French and Indonesian at Narrabundah College , Canberra . In 1983 she graduated from the Australian National University in Canberra with a Master of Arts degree before receiving a PhD in Classics in 1989 . Her doctoral thesis deals with the role of memory in the composition of Homeric epics . With this work, she already focused on the investigation of Homeric epics as part of oral poetry . Her research approach is characterized by the transfer of cognitive psychological and sociolinguistic approaches to the narrative theory of Homeric epics.

Elizabeth Minchin is Professor of Classics at the Australian National University. In 2007 she received the Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching in the “Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning” category. In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . Since 2007 she has been one of two editors of the journal Antichthon , published by the Australasian Society for Classical Studies .

Fonts (selection)

• Homer and the Resources of Memory: Some Applications of Cognitive Theory to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-198-15257-4 .
• Traditional grammar. An introductory course book for students of Latin and Ancient Greek. ANU School of Language Studies, Classics Program, Canberra 2002.
• Homeric voices: discourse, memory, gender. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 0-199-28012-6 .

Remarks

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3. ^ Australasian Society for Classical Studies: Editor Antichthon .

Web links

• Elizabeth Minchin on the Australian National University website
• Literature by and about Elizabeth Minchin in the catalog of the German National Library