Staff profile

Professor Christopher John Mackie

Head of School (Historical and European Studies), Professor of Greek Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies Research Centre for Greek Studies

HU3 213, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Newcastle, NSW), PhD (Glasgow).

Membership of professional associations

Australasian Society of Classical Studies; Director, Trendall Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Area of study

Greek Studies

Brief profile

Chris Mackie studied Latin and Greek at the University of Newcastle (NSW), and then wrote his PhD at the University of Glasgow on the Roman poem the Aeneid, by Vergil. He has written widely on Roman and Greek topics, especially Vergil, Homer, and Greek mythology.  More recently he has developed interests in the Gallipoli/Dardanelles region through time, and in classical reception studies. After working at the University of New England (NSW) for two years, he was at the University of Melbourne for 24 years where he supervised many MA and PhD theses. He joined the Research Centre for Greek Studies at La Trobe University in mid 2010.  

Research interests

European History

- Classical mythology

- Early Greek myth

- Gallipoli and the Dardanelles

Literary Studies

- Roman epic poetry

- The epic poems of Homer

Teaching units

  • MDS1ANG Ancient Greece, Myth, Art, Text
  • MDS2/3CLM Classical Mythology

Recent publications

Books

  • Byrne, Mackie, Tamis (eds.) 2010, Philathenaios  Athens Helleniki Epigrafiki Hetaireia.
  • Mackie, C.J. 2008, Rivers of Fire New Academia, Washington DC.
  • Haslem, Mackie, Ndalianis (eds.), 2007, Super/heroes New Academia, Washington D.C.
  • Mackie CJ (ed.), 2004, Oral performance and its Context Brill, Leiden

Articles/Chapters

  • Mackie, CJ 2011, ‘Hell and Helle at the Dardanelles’ in McInnis, Parisot, Wilkinson (eds.),  Refashioning Myth Cambridge Scholars press, 187-200
  • Sagona,  Mackie et al. ‘The ANZAC Battlefield: New Perspectives and Methodologies in History and Archaeology’ RAHS (2011), 313-36.
  • Mackie CJ 2011, 24 entries in the Homer Encyclopedia, Finkelberg, M. (ed.) Oxford, Blackwell: ‘Aegis’, ‘Aiolos’, ‘Boreas’, ‘Briareus’, ‘Cronos’, ‘Elysium’, ‘Erebus’, ‘Euros’, ‘Ichor’, ‘Nektar’, ‘Nekyia’, ‘Notos’, ‘Ouraniones’, ‘Peneios’, ‘Phthia’, ‘Rhea’, ‘Rivers’, ‘Simoeis’, ‘Skamandros’, ‘Themis’, ‘Theomachy’, ‘Titans’, ‘Winds’, ‘Zephyros’.
  • Mackie CJ 2010, ‘Archaeology at Gallipoli in 1915’ Philathenaios (above), 213-25. Read Archaeology at Gallipoli in 1915 [PDF 526KB].
  • Mackie CJ 2009, ‘The earliest Philoctetes’ Scholia 1-16.
  • Mackie CJ 2007, ‘Men of Darkness’ in Super/heroes (above) 83-95.
  • Mackie CJ 2002, ‘Homeric Phthia’ Colby Quarterly 38 163-73.