Adam Schwartz

CV

2013:   Employed as associate professor at the SAXO Institute, dept. for Greek and Latin.

2012:   Employed as postdoctoral fellow at at the SAXO Institute, dept. for Greek and Latin with the two-year research project Aristotle on the cohesive force of interpersonal relations.

2009:   Employed as temporary associate professor at the SAXO Institute, dept. for Greek and Latin.

2006:  Employed as postdoctoral fellow at the SAXO Institute, dept. for Greek and Latin with the research project The 'homeric society'and early Greek literacy (financed by the Carlsberg Foundation).

2005:   Ph.d. at the SAXO Institute, dept. of Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen defending the dissertation Re-staging the hoplite. Arms, armour and phalanx fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece.

2002:   Commenced Ph.D. studies at the Department of Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen

2001:   MA in classics (Greek and Latin) with the thesis Deuteros plous: en analyse af den aristoteliske forfat­nings­­type politeia (29/8).

1994:   Admitted at the Department of Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen Universitet. Main subject: Greek; subsidiary subject: Latin

1993:  Upper secondary school-leaving examination from Helsingør Gymnasium, Elsinore

1989:   Leaving Examination of the Folkeskolen

1973:   Born in Elsinore

Primary fields of research

Greek history, above all the Archaic period. Military matters, hoplite warfare, socio-religious aspects of warfare in ancient Greece, the "Homeric society", oral poetry, early writing in Europe in predominantly oral societies, early literacy.

Current research

A comparative study of early literacy in a number of hitherto oral societies with a view to defining the dissemination and the use of early literacy in Greece of the early Archaic period. Also currently working on a complete Danish translation of Thucydides.