- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Andrew Barker read Greats at Oxford, and went on from there to the Australian National University, where he wrote a PhD thesis on forms of explanation in evolutionary biology. Ancient philosophy, however, was the main focus of his teaching career, in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick and the Classics Departments of the Universities of Cambridge, Otago and Birmingham. He retired in 2008. He plunged into research on ancient Greek music and musical theory in the mid-1970s, a time when these subjects had long been seriously neglected, and has been working on them ever since. He is the Founding President of the International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage (informally known as Moisa), and editor of the journal Greek and Roman Musical Studies.
Current post
University of Birmingham Emeritus Professor of Classics
Past appointments
University of Birmingham Professor of Classics
Jan 1996 - Jan 2010
University of Otago Professor of Classics
Jan 1992 - Jan 1995
University of Warwick Lecturer; Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Jan 1970 - Jan 1992
Publications
The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
Andrew Barker - Published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press
