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Richard Lawrence Hunter (born 1953) is a classical scholar and has since 2001 been the 38th Regius Professor of Greek
Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)

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 at Cambridge University.








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Richard Lawrence Hunter (born 1953) is a classical scholar and has since 2001 been the 38th Regius Professor of Greek
Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)

The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge at the University of Cambridge....
 at Cambridge University.

Education and academic career

Richard Hunter was born and grew up in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. After graduating at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in Australia. It was established in Sydney in 1850. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight " universities that are highly ranked in terms of their research performance....
, Australia
Australia

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 he took his PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
 at Cambridge University, subsequently becoming a lecturer
Lecturer

Lecturer is a term of academic rank. In the United Kingdom lecturer is the name given to university teachers in their first permanent university position....
 at Cambridge and a Fellow
Fellow

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 of Pembroke College
Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a college of the University of Cambridge, home to over six hundred students and fellow, and is the third oldest of the colleges....
.

In 2001 he was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge in sucession to P. E. Easterling
P. E. Easterling

Patricia Elizabeth Easterling is an United Kingom classical scholar, recognised as a particular expert on the work of Sophocles....
 and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is one of the 31 Colleges of the University of Cambridge of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or University of Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduate students, and over 160 Fellows; however, counting only the student body it has somewhat fewer than Homert...
.

Richard Hunter is a member of the Academy of Athens
Academy of Athens (modern)

The Academy of Athens is Greece's national academy, and the highest research establishment in the country. It was established in 1926, and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs ....
, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney and has an honorary degree
Honorary degree

An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university has waived the usual requirements . The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the institution in question....
 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , named after the philosopher Aristotle, is the largest university of Greece. Its campus covers 230,000 square metres close to the center of the city of Thessaloniki....
.

Publications

  • Eubulus
    Eubulus (poet)

    Eubulus was an Athens "Middle Comedy" poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC According to the Suda , which dates him to the 101st Olympiad and identifies him as "on the border between the Middle and the Old Comedy", he produced 104 comedies....
    : The Fragments (Cambridge, 1983)
  • A Study of Daphnis & Chloe
    Daphnis and Chloe

    Daphnis and Chloe is the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greece novelist and romance r Longus....
     (Cambridge, 1983)
  • The New Comedy of Greece and Rome (Cambridge, 1985)
  • Apollonius of Rhodes
    Apollonius of Rhodes

    Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius , early 3rd century BCE - after 246 BCE, was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria....
    : Argonautica Book III (Cambridge, 1989)
  • The 'Argonautica' of Apollonius: literary studies (Cambridge, 1993)
  • (Cambridge, 1996)
  • Heliodorus
    Heliodorus

    Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:...
     (Cambridge, 1998)
  • Theocritus
    Theocritus

    Theocritus , the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC....
    . A Selection     (Cambridge, 1999)
  • Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
    Ptolemy II Philadelphus

    Ptolemy II Philadelphus , was the king of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 BC to 246 BC. He was the son of the founder of the Ptolemaic kingdom Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice I of Egypt, and was educated by Philitas of Cos....
     (Berkeley, 2003)
  • Plato's
    Plato

    Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
     Symposium
    Symposium (Plato)

    The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the Tragedy#Greek tragedy Agathon at Athens....
     (Oxford, 2004)
  • Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with M. Fantuzzi) (Cambridge, 2004)
  • (Cambridge, 2005)
  • The Shadow of Callimachus
    Callimachus

    Callimachus was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya, Libya. He was a noted poet, critic and scholar of the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of ancient Egyptian Greeks Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes....
     (Cambridge, 2006)


External links

  • , Inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Greek, 17 October 2001
  • Lecture given at the ceremonies' hall of the University of Athens, March 2006