Richard Lawrence Hunter#
Membership Number: | 3462 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2013 |

Present and Previous Positions
- 2001- Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge
- 2001- Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1997-2001 Reader in Greek and Latin Literature, Cambridge
- 1987-1997 University Lecturer in Classics, Cambridge
- 1977-2001 Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Greek and Roman Comedy
- Hellenistic poetry
- The Greek and Roman novel
- Plato and the Platonic tradition
- Ancient literary criticism
- Augustan poetry and its Greek background
Honours and Awards
- Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens (2001)
- Honorary Doctorate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004)
- Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (2005)
- Premio Anassilaos, Reggio di Calabria (2006)
- Fellow, British Academy (2013)
- He is on the Research Assessment panels for both Greece and Italy, and currently also on the editorial committee of eight European journals