Poetic Obituaries: Prof. [Colin] 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.

from Greek Reporter Europe: Authority on Greek texts dies aged 69

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