Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Professor Richard Hunter 

Professor Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek and a Fellow of Trinity College.

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Contact:

Post: Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
Email: rlh10@cam.ac.uk
Tel:  01223 (3)35150 (Faculty) / ( 3)38410 (College)

Major publications: 

Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: the silent stream (Cambridge, 2012).
(with D. Russell) Plutarch, How to study poetry (Cambridge, 2011)
Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge, 2009)
(with I. Rutherford) Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge, 2009)
On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (Berlin, 2008)
The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge, 2006)
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (Cambridge, 2005)
(with M. Fantuzzi) Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2004)
Plato's Symposium (Oxford, 2004)
Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Berkeley, 2003)
Theocritus. A Selection (Cambridge, 1999)
Studies in Heliodorus (Cambridge, 1998)
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry (Cambridge, 1996)
The 'Argonautica' of Apollonius: literary studies (Cambridge, 1993)
Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (Cambridge, 1989)
The New Comedy of Greece and Rome (Cambridge, 1985)
A Study of Daphnis & Chloe (Cambridge, 1983)
Eubulus: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1983)

 Current research interests:

Ancient literary criticism, Hellenistic and Roman poetry, the Greek and Roman novel, Greek literature and Greek religion

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Hesiod, Herodotus, Euripides, the rhetorical tradition, Hellenistic culture, Roman comedy