Richard L. Hunter

Richard Lawrence Hunter, FBA (born 1953^[1]) is a classical scholar. In 2001 he became the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.

Education and academic career[]

Richard Hunter was born and grew up in Australia. After graduating at the University of Sydney,^[2] Australia he took his PhD at Cambridge University, subsequently becoming a lecturer at Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College.

In 2001 he was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge^[3] in succession to P. E. Easterling and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[4]

Richard Hunter is a member of the Academy of Athens,^[1] an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney^[2] and has an honorary degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.^[2] He serves on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici.^[5] Since 2013 he is president of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.^[6]

In 2013 Richard Hunter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.^[7]

Publications[]

• Eubulus: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1983)
• A Study of Daphnis & Chloe (Cambridge, 1983)
• The New Comedy of Greece and Rome (Cambridge, 1985)
• Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (Cambridge, 1989)
• The 'Argonautica' of Apollonius: literary studies (Cambridge, 1993)
• Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry (Cambridge, 1996)
• Studies in Heliodorus (Cambridge, 1998)
• Theocritus. A Selection (Cambridge, 1999)
• Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Berkeley, 2003)
• Plato's Symposium (Oxford, 2004)
• Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with M. Fantuzzi) (Cambridge, 2004)
• The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (Cambridge, 2005)
• The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge, 2006)
• On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (Berlin, 2008)
• Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture (with I. Rutherford) (Cambridge, 2009)
• Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge, 2009)
• Plutarch, How to study poetry (with D. Russell) (Cambridge, 2011)
• Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: the silent stream (Cambridge, 2012)
• Hesiodic Voices. Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days (Cambridge 2014)
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome (ed.; with Casper C. de Jonge) (Cambridge 2018)

References[]

External links[]

• On Coming After, Inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Greek, 17 October 2001
• The Silence Of The Sirens: readings of Homer then and now Lecture given at the ceremonies' hall of the University of Athens, March 2006