Neil Hopkinson

Neil Hopkinson was an English Hellenist. Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he served as a fellow and director of studies in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1983 until his death in 2021. He has been described as "one of the most influential commentators of his generation". He was educated at Hipperholme Grammar School From 1982 to 1983, he worked at the same college as a research fellow. by contrast, the Latinist Philip Hardie termed his commentary on the Hymn to Demeter as "a masterpiece of deep and judicious scholarship". A 2021 obituary published in The Times quoted a fellow classicist describing him as "one of the most influential commentators of his generation".

Selected publications

Quintus Smyrnaeus. Posthomerica. ed. and trans. by Neil Hopkinson. Loeb edition, Harvard University Press 2018.