Colin François Lloyd Austin

Colin Austin

Portrait of Colin Austin by James Austin

Colin Austin
Photograph by James Austin
Born 26 July 1941
Melbourne, Australia
Died 13 August 2010
Alma mater Lycée Lakanal, Paris; Manchester Grammar School; Jesus College, Cambridge; Christ Church, Oxford
Occupation Scholar of ancient Greek

Colin François Lloyd Austin, FBA (26 July 1941 – 13 August 2010) was a British scholar of ancient Greek.[1]

Biography

Colin Austin was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1941, the second son of Lloyd James Austin (1915–1994) and of Jeanne-Françoise (née Guérin).[2] A few years later the family moved to France and then to Great Britain.[3] He was educated at the Lycée Lakanal, Paris, Manchester Grammar School, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford, where Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones supervised his DPhil on Aristophanes. He won the Hallam Prize in 1961, the Browne Medal in 1961 and the Porson Prize in 1962.[4] In 1969 he was appointed lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University and worked there as the Director of Studies in Classics until 2008. From 1998 to 2008 Austin was a full Professor of Greek. In 1983 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy[1] He died on 13 August 2010.[1]

Colin Austin's main works were related to Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes and Menander. Austin's commentary on Thesmophoriazusae was published by the Oxford University Press in a 2004 edition co-edited by S. Douglas Olson. Austin was the first publisher (1967) of the new portion of Euripides' tragedy Erectheus, extracted from a mummy casing in Paris. He was also the first publisher (1969) of the first and third plays from the Bodmer Codex of Menander: Samia "The Woman from Samos", "Aspis", and "The Shield". In partnership with Rudolf Kassel, Austin started in 1983 the comprehensive edition of the Greek Comic Dramatists, "Poetae Comici Graeci". Volumes published up to 2001 provide some 4,500 pages of surviving texts of more than 250 authors with commentary.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Colin Austin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 December 2014..
  2. ↑ Professor Lloyd Austin's obituary in the Independent.
  3. 1 2 Hanley, Eric (13 September 2010). "Professor Colin Austin". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ The International Who's Who 2004. London and New York: Europa Publications, 2003, p. 60.

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