Adrian S. Hollis

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Adrian Swayne Hollis (born August 2, 1940 in Bristol , † February 26, 2013 in Wells , Somerset ) was a British classical philologist and grandmaster in correspondence chess .

Life

Adrian Hollis was the only son of Sir Roger Hollis , the former Director General of MI5 (1956-1965), and his first wife, Evelyn Swayne. Christopher Hollis, writer and Conservative politician , was his uncle, Crispian Hollis , the Bishop of the Catholic Church of Portsmouth , was his first cousin and the Anglican suffragan Bishop of Taunton , Right Revd George Arthur Hollis (1868–1944), a grandfather to the he had in common with Crispian Hollis.

Hollis attended Eton College as a King's Scholar and won the Newcastle Scholarship there in 1958 . He then studied Classics at Christ Church , Oxford . He is considered a student of William Spencer Barrett . From 1964 to 1967 he was an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Humanity at St Andrews University . In 1967 he returned to Oxford to take up the post of University Lecturer in Classics and Tutorial Fellow at Keble College , which he held until his retirement in 2007, at the university there, succeeding his teacher Barrett .

In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from St Andrews University .

In 1967 he married Margaret Mair Cameron Edwards, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

Chess career

In addition to his classical philology career, Hollis was British correspondence chess master in 1966 (divided), 1967 and 1971. In 1976 he received the title of correspondence chess grandmaster. 1982–1987 he won the ninth correspondence chess Olympiad, in 1998 the correspondence chess team world championship as a member of the British team. He also represented the Oxford University Chess Club on various occasions in competitions with Cambridge University. In the 1960s Hollis was also active in local chess, he took part with the English team in five student team world championships (1960 to 1964), where he achieved the best individual result on the first board in Budva in 1963, and he also belonged to the Clare Benedict Cup in 1962 in Bern to the English selection.

Research priorities

Hollis' research interests were in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. In addition to annotated editions of the eighth book of Metamorphoses and the first book of the Ars amatoria Ovids , the edition of the fragmentary poem Hecale des Callimachos and the edition of fragments of Roman poetry are his main works. In addition, he has a myriad of articles, often of a text-critical or microphilological nature, on authors such as Euphorion of Chalkis , Choirilos of Samos , Philetas , Lycophron from Chalkis , Nonnos of Panopolis on the Greek side and Catullus , Horace , Properz , Virgil and Statius on the Roman authored.

Fonts (selection)

Editions and Comments

  • Ovid: Metamorphoses Book VIII. Edited with introduction and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1970.
  • Ovid: Ars Amatoria Book I. Edited with introduction and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977.
  • Callimachus: Hecale. Edited with introduction and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990; second, revised edition 2009. - Review by Peter Habermehl, in: H-Soz-u-Kult November 16, 2009 .
  • Fragments of Roman Poetry, c. 60 BC - AD 20. Edited with introduction, translation, and commentary. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007. - Review by David Butterfield, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007-12-30 ; James EG Zetzel , in: Classical World 102, 2009, pp. 347-348; Richard F. Thomas, in: The Classical Review 60, 2010, pp. 128-130, (online) .

items

  • Some Fragments of Callimachus' Hecale. In: Classical Review 15, 1965, pp. 259-260.
  • Two Notes on Callimachus. In: Classical Review 22, 1972, p. 5.
  • Some Allusions to Earlier Hellenistic Poetry in Nonnus. In: Classical Quarterly 26, 1976, pp. 142-150.
  • Notes on Callimachus' Hecale. In: Classical Quarterly 32, 1982, pp. 469-473.
  • Ovid, Heroides 21.229-230 and Callimachus, fr. 67.3-4. In: Liverpool Classical Monthly 16, 1991, pp. 90-91.
  • Attica in Hellenistic Poetry. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 93, 1992, pp. 1–15, (online) (PDF).
  • The Nuptial Rite in Catullus 66 and Callimachus' Poetry for Berenice. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 91, 1992, 21–28, (online) (PDF).
  • Hellenistic Coloring in Virgil's Aeneid. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94, 1992, pp. 269-285.
  • [Oppian], Cyn . 2,100-158 and the Mythical Past of Apamea-on-the-Orontes. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 102, 1994, pp. 153–166, (online) (PDF).
  • Rights of Way in Ovid ( Heroides 20.146) and Plautus ( Curculio 36). In: Classical Quarterly 44, 1994, pp. 545-549.
  • Statius' Young Parthian King ( Thebaid 8,286-93). In: Greece & Rome 41, 1994, pp. 205-212.
  • with JR Rea and RC Senior: A Tax Receipt from Hellenistic Bactria. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 104, 1994, pp. 261–280, (online) (PDF).
  • Heroic Honors for Philetas? In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110, 1996, pp. 56–62, (online) (PDF).
  • Laodice Mother of Eucratides of Bactria. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110, 1996, pp. 161–164, (online) (PDF).
  • Octavian in the Fourth Georgic. In: Classical Quarterly 46, 1996, pp. 305-308.
  • Traces of Ancient Commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses. In: Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 9, 1996, pp. 159-174.
  • Virgil's Friend Varius Rufus. In: Proceedings of the Virgil Society 22, 1996, 19-33.
  • A New Fragment on Niobe and the Text of propertius 2.20.8. In: Classical Quarterly 47, 1997, 557-582.
  • Some neglected verse citations in Hesychius. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123, 1998, pp. 61–71, (online) (PDF).
  • Darkness on the Mountains: A Fragment of Callimachus' Hecale? In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123, 1998, p. 72, (online) (PDF).
  • Callimachus, Epigram 9 G.-P. = 44 Pf. = Anth. Pal. 12,139. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123, 1998, pp. 73–74, (online) (PDF).
  • Two Adynata in Horace, Epode 16. In: Classical Quarterly 48, 1998, pp. 311-313.
  • A Tragic Fragment in Cicero, Pro Caelio 67? In: Classical Quarterly 48, 1998, pp. 561-564.
  • The Hellenistic Epyllion and Its Descendants. In: SF Johnson (Ed.), Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism. Ashgate, Aldershot 2006, pp. 141-157.

Obituaries for William Spencer Barrett

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adrian Swayne Hollis' results at student team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Adrian Swayne Hollis' results at Clare Benedict Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hollis, Adrian S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollis, Adrian Swayne; Hollis, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist and correspondence chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2013
Place of death Wells , Somerset