Richard L. Hunter

Richard Lawrence Hunter ( born 1953 ) is a British classical scholar.

He studied at the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he then worked as a Lecturer and Fellow. He was appointed as the successor of Patricia Elizabeth Easterling to the Regius Professor of Greek in 2001.

Hunter is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney since 2001.

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