Richard L. Hunter

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Richard L. Hunter

Institutions

Richard Lawrence Hunter

classical scholar. From 2001 to 2021, he was the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge
.

Early life and education

Hunter was born on 30 October 1953.

Euboulos", and his PhD was awarded in 1979.[4]

Academic career

After completing his PhD, Hunter became a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 2001 he was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge[5] in succession to P. E. Easterling and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[6] He retired as Regius Professor in October 2021,[2] giving his valedictory lecture on 27 September 2021.[7]

Hunter is a member of the Academy of Athens,[1] an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney[3] and has an honorary degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.[3] He serves on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici.[8] Since 2013, he is president of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.[9]

In 2013, Hunter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[10]

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)
  • The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021 (Berlin, 2023)

References

  1. ^ a b Academy of Athens membership Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^
    Who's Who 2021
    . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b c University of Sydney News, 2 December 2005
  4. ^ Hunter, R. L. (1979). A commentary on Euboulos. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  5. ^ Cambridge University Faculty of Classics
  6. ^ List of Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge by date of election
  7. ^ "Richard Hunter's Valedictory Lecture as Regius Professor of Greek". Faculty of Classics. University of Cambridge. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  8. ^ Libraweb
  9. ^ Marseilles, Makki (26 January 2013). "Australian professor to lead Greek university". University World News.
  10. ^ "Professor Richard Hunter FBA". Retrieved 23 July 2023.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Cambridge University

2001–2021
Succeeded by