Classics Program, Ground Floor, A.D. Hope Building (14),
Ellery Crescent, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
email: classics@anu.edu.au
Dr Elizabeth Minchin
Main Research Interests
The Homeric epics as oral poetry; the composition of the Homeric epics;
Homer and memory; Homer's narrative; the speech Homer attributes to
his characters.
The prose narrative of novels. In Greek, Longus (Daphnis and Chloe).
In Latin, Apuleius (Metamorphoses).
Selected Research Publications
Homer and the Resources of Memory: Some Applications of Cognitive
Theory to the Iliad and the Odyssey. Oxford University Press, 2001.
247pp.
Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender. Oxford University
Press, 2007. 310pp.
"Scripts and Themes: Cognitive Research and the Homeric Epic".
Classical Antiquity 11.2 (1992) 229-241.
"Ring-Patterns and Ring-Composition: Some Observations on the
Framing of Stories in Homer". Helios 22.1 (1995) 23-35.
"The Performance of Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics".
In I. Worthington (ed), Voice into Text. Brill (1996) 3-20.
"Similes in Homer: Image, Mind's Eye, and Memory". In Janet
Watson (ed.), Speaking Volumes: Orality and Literacy in the Greek
and Roman World. Brill (2001) 25-52.
"How Homeric is Hysteron Proteron?" Mnemosyne: A Journal
of Classical Studies 54 (2001) 635-645.
"Verbal Behaviour in its Social Context: Three Question Strategies
in Homer's Odyssey". Classical Quarterly 52 (2002) 1-18.
"Speech Acts in the Everyday World and in Homer: The Rebuke as
a Case Study". In I. Worthington and J. Miles Foley (eds), Epea
and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece.
Brill (2002) 71-97.
"Rhythm and Regularity in Homeric Composition: Questions in the
Odyssey". In C. J. Mackie (ed.), Oral Performance and its Context.
Brill (2004).
"Homer on Autobiographical Memory: The Case of Nestor". In
R. Rabel (ed.) Bristol (2005).
"The Language of Heroes and The Language of Heroines: Storytelling
in Oral Traditional Epic". In C. Cooper (ed.), Politics of
Orality. Brill (2007).
"Spatial Memory and the Composition of the Iliad".
In E. A. Mackay (ed.) Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek
and Roman World. Brill (2008).
"Men's Talk and Women's Talk in Homer: Rebukes and Protests".
Meditarch (forthcoming).
"Don't be rude and interrupt, Gary....": Some Observations
on Interruptions in our own World and Homer's". Phoenix (forthcoming).
" Can one ever forget? Homer on the persistence of painful memories".
Forthcoming Scholia.
A Window onto the Past: A Guide to the Classics Museum Collection
at the Australian National University. National Institute of the
Humanities, 2002. 32pp.
Teaching Interests and Courses
The ancient languages
Teaching Ancient Greek and Latin to beginners (Traditional Grammar
CLAS1001); Continuing Greek and Continuing Latin; Intermediate Greek
and Intermediate Latin.
Teaching Advanced language courses: Homer (Iliad and Odyssey); Longus
(Daphnis and Chloe); Plato; Virgil, Aeneid; Catullus; Martial; Apuleius.
Ancient History
Homer and the Trojan War (ANCH2014)
Artefacts and Society in the Greco-Roman World (ANCH2009)
Recipient of a Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching
2006
