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Norma Miller (classicist)

{{short description|President of the classical association 1986-7}}

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Norma P. Miller (–1988) was a classicist whose key works were translations of Tacitus and Menander. She was a lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway.{{Cite web|title=N.P. Miller|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/norma-miller|website=www.bloomsbury.com|access-date=2019-04-14}}

Education and career

Miller studied at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge.{{Cite book|title=Plays and fragments|last=Menander, of Athens.|others=Miller, N. P.|isbn=978-0141913476|location=London|oclc=1004977877|date=2004-07-29}} She was a lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway. She also lectured at the Trent University, Ontario, where she held an Ashley Fellowship in 1985–86.{{Cite web|url=https://www.trentu.ca/colleges/college-experience/ashley-fellowship|title=Ashley Fellowship - Colleges - Trent University|website=www.trentu.ca|access-date=2019-04-14}} She also lectured at the University of Toronto. Her teaching included Greek drama and Miller supervised Phd students included Janet P. Bews.{{Cite book|url=https://www.archeion.ca/janet-p-bews-fonds|title=Janet P. Bews fonds|last=Bews|first=Janet P.|date=1963–1990}} Miller was President of the Classical Association in 1987.{{Cite journal|last=Handley|first=Carol|author-link=Carol Handley |date=2003|title=Things That Matter|journal=Greece & Rome|volume=50|pages=209–225|issn=0017-3835|jstor=3567846|doi=10.1093/gr/50.suppl_1.209}} After retirement she was a Reader Emeritus at the University of London. Miller was noted for her contributions to classical studies in the UK.{{Cite journal|last=Huxley|first=Herbert H.|date=1988|title=Preface|url=http://digitalvirgil.co.uk/pvs/1988/intro.pdf|journal=Proceedings of the Virgil Society|volume=19}}

Awards and honours

The Department of Classical Studies and Traill College at Trent University established the Norma Miller fund in her honour in 1991.{{Cite journal|date=1991|title=Announcements/Annonces|journal=Echos du Monde Classique: Classical Views|volume=35|pages=136–138}}

Selected publications

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  • Tacitus: Annals XIV: A Companion to the Penguin Translation. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press.

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Category:Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London

Category:Women classical scholars

Category:1988 deaths

Category:Presidents of the Classical Association

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