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Richard Hunter
An Australian classical scholar with a gift for making ancient Greek literature feel alive, he is especially known for work on Hellenistic poetry, literary criticism, and the Greek novel.
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Richard L. Hunter is an Australian classicist and a Fellow of the British Academy. He studied at the University of Sydney and later completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he went on to build a long academic career.
From 2001 to 2021, he served as Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, one of the field’s most distinguished posts. His research has focused on Greek literature of the post-classical world, including Hellenistic and imperial writing, as well as the ancient reception and criticism of classical texts.
He has written and edited widely on authors, poetry, and literary culture in the ancient Mediterranean, and his work is valued for combining deep scholarship with clarity. Cambridge now lists him as Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek and a Fellow of Trinity College.