Adrian Swayne Hollis (2 August 1940 – 26 February 2013) was an English classical scholar and correspondence chess grandmaster, the title having been awarded in 1976.
Hollis represented England for five consecutive years at the World Student Chess Olympiad, from 1960 to 1964 inclusive.
[4] He also played in the (over the board) British Chess Championship a number of times during the 1960s, with a best placing of seventh equal (in 1961).
He wrote many important articles on the fragmentary poems of Callimachus and published a full-length commentary on the Hecale in 1990 (second edition 2009, with translation), but also ranged over authors as diverse as Euphorion, Choerilus, Lycophron, Horace, Propertius and Virgil.
He also published a commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses VIII (1970) and Ars Amatoria I (1977), and an edition of Fragments of Roman Poetry, c. 60 BC-AD 20 (2007).