Richard Lawrence Hunter 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 professorships at the University of Cambridge. The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral....

 at Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

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Education and academic career

Richard Hunter was born and grew up in Australia

Australia

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. After graduating at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

, Australia

Australia

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 he took his PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 at Cambridge University, subsequently becoming a lecturer

Lecturer

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 at Cambridge and a Fellow

Fellow

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 of Pembroke College

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college has over seven hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its...

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

P. E. Easterling

Patricia Elizabeth Easterling FBA is an English classical scholar, recognised as a particular expert on the work of Sophocles.-Life and career:...

 and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

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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 Education...

, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney and has an honorary degree

Honorary degree

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 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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. He serves on the advisory board of the periodical Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici

Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici is an Italian periodical within the realm of classical philology founded in 1978....

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Publications

• Eubulus
  Eubulus (poet)
  Eubulus was an Athenian "Middle Comic" 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 Eubulus was an Athenian "Middle Comic" poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s...
  
  : 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 Greek novelist and romancer Longus.-Setting and style:It is set on the isle of Lesbos during the 2nd century AD, which is also assumed to be the author's home. Its style is rhetorical and pastoral; its shepherds and shepherdesses are...
  
   (Cambridge, 1983)
• The New Comedy of Greece and Rome (Cambridge, 1985)
• Apollonius of Rhodes
  Apollonius of Rhodes
  Apollonius Rhodius, also known as Apollonius of Rhodes , early 3rd century BCE – after 246 BCE, was a poet, and a librarian at the Library of Alexandria...
  
  ': 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
  Heliodorus
  -People:Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:*Heliodorus a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca...
  
  (Cambridge, 1998)
• Theocritus
  Theocritus
  Theocritus , the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC.-Life:Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems commonly attributed to him have little claim to...
  
  . A Selection (Cambridge, 1999)
• Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
  Ptolemy II Philadelphus
  Ptolemy II Philadelphus was the king of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 BCE to 246 BCE. He was the son of the founder of the Ptolemaic kingdom Ptolemy I Soter and Berenice, and was educated by Philitas of Cos...
  
  (Berkeley, 2003)
• Plato's
  Plato
  Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
  
   Symposium
  Symposium (Plato)
  The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–380 BCE. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love....
  
   (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
  Callimachus
  Callimachus was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. He was a noted poet, critic and scholar at the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of the Egyptian–Greek Pharaohs Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes...
  
  (Cambridge, 2006)

External links

• On Coming After, Inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Greek, 17 October 2001
• The Silence Of The Sirens: readings of Homer then and now Lecture given at the ceremonies' hall of the University of Athens, March 2006