Gregory Hutchinson (Classical Philologist)

Gregory Owen Hutchinson (born December 5, 1957 in London Borough of Hackney ) is a British Graecist and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University .

Life

He was taught at the City of London School. He had received one of the vacancies funded by the Inner London Education Authority. He studied classics at Balliol College , Oxford and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He stayed with Balliol to do postgraduate research and completed his PhD in Philosophy ( DPhil ) in 1983 . His doctoral thesis was entitled Aeschylus : Septem Contra Thebas: Text and commentary . In 1979, Hutchinson married Yvonne Downing. They have a daughter together.

From 1981 to 1984 Hutchinson taught as a PhD student at Christ Church in Oxford. In 1984 he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. From 1984 to 2015 he was a tutor for classics in Exeter. From 1996 to 1998 he was also a reader in Classical Literature at the Faculty of Classics. From 1998 to 2015 he was also Professor of Greek and Latin Languages ​​and Literature at Oxford University.

Fonts (selection)

• Cicero 's correspondence. A literary study . Oxford 1998, ISBN 978-0198150664 .
• Talking books. Readings in Hellenistic and Roman books of poetry . Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0199279418 .
• Greek to Latin. Frameworks and contexts for intertextuality . Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0199670703 .
• Plutarch 's Rhythmic Prose . Oxford 2018, ISBN 9780198821717 .

Web links

• Professor Gregory Hutchinson

predecessor	Office	successor
Christopher Pelling	Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University since 2015	---