About

Adam, educated in Australia and Ireland, has extensively worked and taught on Greek and Roman epic poetry, satire, the epigram and historiography, as well as Greek comedy. He has a keen interest for comparative philology and linguistics.

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Research

Adam Bartley is currently examining the Dialogues of the Sea Gods by Lucian of Samosata. These humorous pieces written in Greek in the second Century AD present popular myths from an unusual angle or with an unexpected emphasis and have much to show us about vibrant literary scene of that time against which Lucian’s sense of humour could function. Adam examines the way that Lucian’s status as a Syrian born non-native Greek speaker is reflected in his works and what that has to show us about cultural integration in the Imperial period. Adam also recently completed research into the Persian Expedition of Xenophon and Caesar’s Gallic War, with a view to comparing the way that both authors use persuasive language and expression to forward their own goals. Lastly, he is starting a new project involving the survival and influence of Greek Lyric poetry, especially that composed by authors from the Greek cities of the Near East.

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Books

Stories from the Mountains, Stories from the Sea - The Digressions and Developed Similes of the Halieutica of Oppian and the Cynegetica, Hypomnemata vol. 105, published August 2003. ISBN 3-525-25249-8, 346 pages.

A Commentary of Lucian's Dialogi Marini, Cambridge Scholar's Publishing, published November 2009. ISBN 978-1-4438-0960-3, 205 pages.

A Lucian for our Time - edited conference abstracts from the Lucian and His Time conference. Cambridge Scholar's Publishing, published November 2009. ISBN 978-1-4438-1433-1, 208 pages.

Articles

Lucian's Contemporary Dialects in "A Lucian for our Time", Cambridge Scholar's Publishing, 2009, 173-184. ISBN 978-1-4438-1433-1

Regional Influences on Lucian's Dialogi Marini, Uluslararasi Samsatli Lucianus Sempozyumu / International Symposium on Lucianus of Samosata, ed. M. Çevik, Adiyaman 2009, 315-324. ISBN 605-60221-1-0

The Use of Rhetoric in Xenophon's Anabasis and Caesar's De Bello Gallico, L'Études Classiques, volume 76, 2008, 361-381.

The Rhetoric of Fishing in Oppian's Halieutica, Classics Ireland, volume 12, 2005, 1-12. ISSN 0791-9417

Techniques of Composition in Lucian's Minor Dialogues, Hermes, Heft 3, 2005, 358-367. ISSN 0018-0777

The implications of the influence of Thucydides on Lucian's Vera Historia, Hermes, Heft 2, 2003, 222-234. ISSN 0018-0777

Translation from Russian to English of Pontic Currency of the period of Mithridates VI on the Bosporus by Constantine Golyenko, from Klio, 1966 in Spink's Numismatic Circular, April 2003. ISSN 0263-7677

Trouble comes in threes? Hunting, Fishing and Fowling in Greek Epigram and Greco-Roman Epic in Classicum October 2000. ISSN 0155-0659

Book Reviews

Silent Eloquence: Lucian and Pantomime Dancing by Ismene Lada-Richards, Classics Ireland, volume 15, 2008, 125-127. ISSN 0791-9417

Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire by Jason König, Classics Ireland, volume 15, 2008, 124-125. ISSN 0791-9417

Lucian of Samosata: Vivus et Redivivus, ed. Ligota and Panizza, Renaissance Quarterly, 2008. ISSN 0034-4338

La peche et les poissons dans la litterature latine. I. Des origines a la fin de la periode augusteenne, Classical Review, 2005, vol. 55(2), 568-569. ISSN 0009-840X

Oppianus Apameensis Cynegetica, Eutecnius Sophistes Paraphrasis, ed. Manolis Papathomopoulos, Exemplaria Classica, 2005. ISSN 1699-3225

POIHTHS EPEWN - Tecniche di composizione poetica negli Halieutica di Oppiano by Enrico Rebuffat for Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008.08.18. ISSN 1055-7660

Halieutica: Der Fischfang and Noten zur Handschriftlichen Überlieferung der Halieutika des Oppian by Fritz Fajen in Classicum May 2000.ISSN 0155-0659

Greek Prose Composition by G.S. Thompson in Classicum May 2000. ISSN 0155-0659

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Service

Visiting Scholar, University of Goettingen (Autumn 2008)

Adam was Clearing Officer for Classics and Archaeology for 2007

Adam is currently Chair of the Board of Examiners for Classical and Archaeological Studies

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Teaching and Supervision

Adam supervises topics on Greek and Latin Epic, Greek and Latin Technical Writing, Greek and Latin Satire and Greek and Latin Personal Poetry.

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