Dr James Adams FBA

Philology Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1992
Year of birth
1943
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Classics, Linguistics

Last Post

All Souls College, Oxford Emeritus Fellow

Past appointments

All Souls College, Oxford Senior Research Fellow

1998 - 2010

University of Reading Professor of Latin

1995 - 1997

University of Manchester Professor of Latin

1993 - 1995

Publications

The regional diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600

James Noel Adams - Published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press

Bilingualism and the Latin language

James Noel Adams - Published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press

Aspects of the language of Latin poetry

James Noel Adams and Roland Mayer - Published in 1999 by British Academy / Oxford University Press

Pelagonius and Latin veterinary terminology in the Roman Empire

James Noel Adams - Published in 1995 by Brill

The Latin sexual vocabulary

James Adams - Published in 1982 by Johns Hopkins University Press

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Dr Miltiades Hatzopoulos FBA

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