Norma Miller (classicist)

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.^[1]

Norma Miller
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Glasgow; University of Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Institutions	Royal Holloway, University of London

Education and career

Miller studied at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge.^[2] 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.^[3] She also lectured at the University of Toronto.^[2] Her teaching included Greek drama^[2] and Miller supervised Phd students included Janet P. Bews.^[4] Miller was President of the Classical Association in 1987.^[5] After retirement she was a Reader Emeritus at the University of London.^[2] Miller was noted for her contributions to classical studies in the UK.^[6]

Awards and honours

The Department of Classical Studies and Traill College at Trent University established the Norma Miller fund in her honour in 1991.^[7]

Selected publications

Translations

• Menander. Plays and Fragments. 1987. Penguin Classics.
• Tacitus Annals I. 1963. Letchworth: Bradda Books

Commentaries

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

Articles

• 1964. Dramatic speech in Tacitus. American Journal of Philology 85: 279-296
• 1968. Tiberius speaks : an examination of the utterances ascribed to him in the Annals of Tacitus. American Journal of Philology 89: 1–19.