From Cambridge City News:
Cambridge professor Colin Austin, one of the world’s leading specialists on ancient Greek texts, has died of cancer at the age of 69.
Australian-born Prof Austin was educated in England and France – his mother tongue was French.
He studied at Oxford and came to Trinity Hall as a research fellow in 1965.
He was made a director of studies there, and remained a fellow until he retired in 2008.
Prof Austin, a fellow of the British Academy, taught in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge and was treasurer of the Cambridge Philological Society for 40 years.
Colleagues said he had “a remarkable gift” for reconstructing fragmentary poetic texts preserved on Egyptian papyri.
Prof Austin had been working on a new edition of Greek New Comedy poet Menander.
He is survived by his wife Mishtu, their two children and four grandchildren.
