Name Richard Hunter | Role Scholar | |
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Institutions Stanford University
University of Cambridge Alma mater University of Sydney
University of Cambridge Thesis A commentary on Euboulos (1979) Doctoral advisor Colin Francois Lloyd Austin Education University of Cambridge, University of Sydney Books The Argonautica of Apollo, The Shadow of Callimachus, The new comedy of Greece a, Theocritus and the archaeol, Plato's Symposium Similar People Apollonius of Rhodes, Hesiod, Plutarch | ||
Richard Lawrence Hunter, FBA (born 1953) is a classical scholar. In 2001 he became the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.
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Education and academic career
Richard Hunter was born and grew up in Australia. After graduating at the University of Sydney, Australia he took his PhD at Cambridge University, subsequently becoming a lecturer at Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College.
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.
Richard 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 Richard Hunter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.