Richard L. Hunter

Richard L. Hunter
Born	1953 (age 62–63) Australia
Institutions	Stanford University University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University of Sydney University of Cambridge
Thesis	A commentary on Euboulos (1979)
Doctoral advisor	C. F. L. Austin

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)
(with I. Rutherford) Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge, 2009)
Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge, 2009)
(with D. Russell) Plutarch, How to study poetry (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)

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

Academic offices
Preceded by P. E. Easterling	Regius Professor of Greek Cambridge University 2001 - present	Incumbent

Cranbrook

Locations in the parish of Cranbrook	Baker's Cross Coursehorn Hartley Swattenden

Buildings	Angley Mill Anthony's Mill Baker's Cross Mill Church Cranbrook station Dog Kennel Mill Fulling mill at Moat Farm Fulling mill at The Freight Hartridge Mill Hatmill Hockeredge Mill Paley Mill Pin Pond Mill Spratsbourne Mill Strict Baptist Chapel Union Mill Upper Mill

People	See List of people from Cranbrook

Schools	Cranbrook School

Sport, arts and leisure	Cranbrook Colony School Field Swifts Park

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 109427322 LCCN: n84230341 ISNI: 0000 0001 2147 3729 GND: 132728281 SUDOC: 028755960 BNF: cb120526598 (data)

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