Richard Hunter

Richard Hunter is an Australian-born classicist best known for his long career at the University of Cambridge. He studied at the University of Sydney, completed his PhD at Cambridge, and went on to teach there for many years, later serving as Regius Professor of Greek and a Fellow of Trinity College.

His research centers on Greek literature of the post-classical world, along with the reception of Greek writing in Rome, ancient literary criticism, and the links between philosophy and literature. He has published widely in Greek and Latin studies, and his books and essays have played an important part in modern scholarship on Hellenistic and imperial Greek literature.

Hunter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and Cambridge now lists him as Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek. For readers, that scholarly background means books shaped by deep knowledge, careful reading, and a real feel for how ancient texts speak across time.