Richard L. Hunter

Richard Lawrence Hunter FBA (born 30 October 1953 ) is an Australian 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. He grew up in Australia, and was educated at Cranbrook School, an independent school in Sydney. He then moved to England, where he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Cambridge; he was a member of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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 in succession to P. E. Easterling and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He retired as Regius Professor in October 2021,

Hunter is a member of the Academy of Athens, Since 2013, he is president of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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

Publications

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) Euripides: Cyclops (with R. Laemmle) (Cambridge, 2021)