Richard Hunter
Member of the Academy of Athens, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney, President of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a member on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici
Richard Hunter was the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2021. He studied at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in 1974. He then moved to England, where he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was titled "A commentary on Euboulos" (1979). Hunter then 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, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney and has an honorary degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He serves on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici. Since 2013, he is president of the council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2013, Hunter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include: Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (1989); Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry (1996); Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with M. Fantuzzi) (2004); The Shadow of Callimachus (2006); On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008); Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: the Silent Stream (2012); Hesiodic Voices. Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days (2014); Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome (with Casper C. de Jonge) (2018); Euripides: Cyclops (with R. Laemmle) (2021); The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021 (2023).