Richard Hunter

This article is about the classical philologist Richard Hunter. On the politician, see Richard C. Hunter .

Richard Lawrence Hunter (* 1953 ) is a British classical philologist .

He studied at the University of Sydney and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge , where he subsequently worked as a lecturer and fellow. In 2001 he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek to succeed Patricia Elizabeth Easterling . He will retire on September 30, 2021.

Hunter has been a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens and Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney since 2001 . In 2013 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . He has also been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2013 .

Publications (selection)

• 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 Archeology 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)
• with M. Fantuzzi: Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge 2004)
• The Hesiodic Catalog of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (Cambridge 2005)
• The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge 2006)

Web links

• Richard L. Hunter at the Faculty of Classics

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Richard Lawrence Hunter. Academia Europaea, accessed December 31, 2017 . 
2. ^ Fellows: Professor Richard Hunter. British Academy, accessed December 31, 2017 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Patricia Elizabeth Easterling	Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University since 2001	-