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Dr Adrian Kelly MA (Melb) Dphil (oxon)



Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature, Balliol College

Balliol College
Oxford,
OX1 3BJ

Tel: (01865) 277580

adrian.kelly@balliol.ox.ac.uk

http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/about-balliol/adrian-kelly


Research Interests

The role of ‘tradition’ in the poetics of Archaic Greece, particularly in Homer, Hesiod and the rest of early epic poetry; Athenian tragedy, where I am concerned largely with the influence of context on the form and interpretations of the plays

Selected Recent Publications

2007: A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII (Oxford Classical Monographs), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2008: ‘The Babylonian Captivity of Homer: the case of the Dios Apate’ Rheinisches Museum, 151, 259-304.
2009: ‘Parodic inconsistency: some problems in the Batrakhomyomakhia’ Journal of Hellenic Studies, 129, 45-51.
2009: Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy), Duckworth, London.
2010: ‘Hypertexting with Homer: Tlepolemos and Sarpedon on Herakles (Iliad 5.628–98)’ Trends in Classics , 2, 259-76.