Richard Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5167-1758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 134 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 125 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Cave with Two Doors
This chapter considers some aspects of the intertextual and intervisual dynamics of Euripides’ Cyclops with particular reference to the cave represented by the skēnē . The particular links of the Cyclops to Sophocles’ Philoctetes are used to explore a network of allusive possibilities in both plays going back to Homer’s ‘Cave of the Nymphs’ in Odyssey 13 and embracing the lost Philoctetes plays of Aeschylus and Euripides. The powerful mediating r…
Ancient Readers of Greek Epic
This chapter considers the place of epic, above all Homer, in three overlapping areas of ancient Greek and Roman culture – education at all levels, elite literary culture, and the more specialised interpretations of scholars and philosophers. Homer was central to Greek education and Hunter considers the various types of evidence for this centrality – anecdotes, literary descriptions, papyri – and the reasons for the greater attention given to the…
Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World
Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts that span from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms. Abandoning long-standing misconceptions derived from the misleading application of modern assumptions and standards, the volume rehabilitates an often neglected but fundamentally important subject: the Greeks…
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this only makes all the more urgent the question of how be…
Epic into Drama (7.6–8)
This chapter considers the race between Calasiris’ two sons, Thyamis and Petosiris, around the walls of Memphis; the race is modelled on that between Achilles and Hector around the walls of Troy in Iliad 22, but there is also a significant debt to other texts, notably Euripides’ Phoenissae . This scene is a prime example of how Heliodorus explores and negotiates the boundaries between epic and drama, both tragedy and comedy, and the chapter consi…
Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry
Chapter 20 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho looks at Sappho’s significance for the rich poetic culture of the Hellenistic world, including Apollonius, Theocritus, and Posidippus, as a parallel development to the scholarly discourse surrounding the editing of her work during this period.
Reception in the Greco-Roman World: Literary Studies in Theory and Practice
The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like 'intertextuality', places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later 'receiver' rather than the unilateral influence of the 'transmitter'. It additionally shines the spotlight on transitions into new cultural …
The Argonauts
This chapter considers the representation of Heracles in the Argonautic narratives of Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus, Idyll 13. Particular attention is paid to the importance to the subsequent tradition of the divine Heracles of Odyssey 11 and to how the model of Heracles became important for ruler cult and Ptolemaic ideology. The chapter considers Heracles’ relations with Hylas, both of them being lost to the Argonautic expedition on the outw…
Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008-2021
Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry
Language and Interpretation in Greek Epigram
ing & Indexing
Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer
This paper considers Theocritus’ Homeric heritage and the use he made of it. As is well known, Theocritean bucolic is constructed as something quite “new,” but also as timeless and immemorially old; a very important element in that construction is Theocritus’ debt to Homer. The two principal passages which are examined are the Cyclops’ address to his favourite ram in Odyssey 9 and the locus amoenus in Odyssey 17 where Eumaeus and the disguised Od…
The Hippias Minor and the Traditions of Homeric Criticism
Homer plays an important role in the discussion in the Hippias Minor of voluntary and involuntary action and their relation to knowledge and goodness. This paper argues that the Hippias Minor sheds light on the Homeric criticism of the late fifth and early fourth centuries, and that it looks forward to, and significantly influenced, the tradition of Hellenistic and later Homeric criticism, for which our best witnesses are the Homeric scholia. Thi…
The Layers of the Text: Collected Papers on Classical Literature 2008–2021
This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the e…
Some problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’
I begin with Zeus’s speech to Hera near the beginning of Iliad 15, after he wakes up and realizes that she has tricked him (Il. 15.53–77)
Studies in Heliodorus
The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: Beyond Interpretation
Sappho and Latin Poetry: The Case of Horace
This chapter presents an important study of Sappho in the context of her Roman reception with regard to ancient literary theory. As in Chapter 2, also by Richard Hunter, a metaliterary pair of concepts appears central, but this time it is the pair of γλαφυρά (‘smooth’) versus αὐστηρά (‘harsh’, ‘rough’, ‘bitter’) that is at the centre of attention. The chapter shows how this pair helps to understand Sappho and how she was perceived in ancient Rome…
Death of a Child: Grief Beyond the Literary?
Chapter 9 explores the interrelationship between literary and inscriptional epigram, principally through a study of GV 1159 = SGO 03/05/04, a poem from imperial Notion on a young boy who drowned in a well. The analysis pays particular attention to versification, narrative technique, the characterization of the boy’s speaking voice and language, and explores the poem’s use of AP 7.170 (attributed to Posidippus or Callimachus) as a way of enfolding…
Notes on the Ancient Reception of Sappho
The absence and presence of Sappho in ancient literary criticism is telling of her reception, not least in the Roman context, as this chapter shows. It argues that through various approaches to Sappho we can observe the dynamics of ancient literary theory, where inter alia the contrastive concepts of ἀλλότριον (‘what belongs to someone else’) and οἰκεῖον (‘what is one’s own’) prove productive for enhancing our understanding of categories such as …
Enkelados: Callimachus Fragment 1.36
Pulling Apollo Apart
This paper considers the etymologising of the names of Apollo in Plato, Cratylus and Plutarch, The E at Delphi . It is argued that the richness of the god’s etymologies in these texts and in classical literature more generally suggests that a special connection was seen between the nature of Apollo and the practices of etymologising; this connection is in part owed to the similarities between etymologising and prophetic speech and practice and in…
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Idea of the Critic
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography
Introduction Casper C. de Jonge and Richard Hunter Part I. Dionysius and Augustan Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: 1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the idea of the critic Richard Hunter 2. Experiencing the past: language, time, and historical consciousness in Dionysian criticism Nicolas Wiater 3. Dionysius' Demosthenes and Augustan Atticism Harvey Yunis 4. Dionysius and Lysias' charm Laura Viidebaum Part II. Dionysius and Augustan Historiography…
The Neuroscience of Resilience
Although the surge in research into the neuroscience of resilience is relatively new, it has been able to elucidate the brain structures that underlie resilience and identify strategies for supporting brain health and mental health across the lifespan. Despite advances, neuroscientists need the input of social work clinicians and clinical researchers to continue to move the field forward. This article provides a narrative review of the recent lit…
On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception
This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter’s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity (‘the ancient novel’), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and an…
The Novel in the Ancient World
This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series The Classical Tradition. The subject of this volume is that group of works of extended prose narrative fiction which bears many similarities to the modern novel and which appeared in the later classical periods in Greece and Rome. The ancient novel has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years not only among students of literature, but also among those looking for new sources on the popul…
Writing the God: Form and Meaning in Callimachus, Hymn to Athena
This chapter elucidates certain features of Callimachus' Fifth Hymn in ways, which will be suggestive for the criticism of all the Hymns. Callimachus' hymn confirms the continuing power of the goddess and tells an apotropaic tale of ultimate separation and misery. Some aspects of the account of Callimachus' Hymn to Athena will doubtless seem more serious than is now fashionable; Callimachus ludens is, perhaps rightly, the now predominant image of…
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its…
The Periegesis of Dionysius and the traditions of hellenistic poetry
Cette étude examine certaines des manières utilisées par Denys pour exploiter la poésie du IIIe s. av. J.-C. Pour Denys le plus grand poète après Homère est Apollonios de Rhodes dont les Argonautiques offrent un modèle de voyage autour du monde et un exposé géographique poétique. Denys utilise aussi la tradition hellénistique de la poésie didactique, connue grâce à Aratos et Nicandre mais qui remonte en fait à Hésiode et au “Catalogue des vaissea…
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 46(1), pp. 36–37
The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica
R. Hunter: The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica 13 The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica Richard Hunter Epic poetry seeks to map the world, both as a physical and as an ideological construct. Just as Homer was the source of all literature, all philosophy, and all political science, so epic is the all-encompassing literary embodiment of all that is known. If it was the Shield of Achilles—itself both microcosm and macrocosmwhich was fo…
The Measure of Homer: The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. Subjects include the geographical and educational breadth of Homeric reception, the literary and theological influence of Homer's depiction of the gods, Homeric poetry and sympotic culture, scholarly and rhetorical approaches…
How incipient colonies create territory: The textual surveys of New Spain, 1520s–1620s
(B)ionic man: Callimachus' iambic programme
A concern with the methods and style of praise and blame recurs, unsurprisingly, throughout Callimachus' Iambi . The iambos is the aggressive mode par excellence , and Callimachus is the most generically-conscious of poets; whether he is writing hymns, aetiological elegy or funerary epigram he is always overtly engaged with the history and development of the literary form in which he operates. The nature of iambic poetry is, however, the explicit…
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 49(1), pp. 48–49
Core Drilling in an Archaeological Site
Methods used in taking drill cores at a deeply stratified archaeological site in Kanawha County, West Virginia, are reported. A site exposed by river-bank erosion was tested with six cores, and additional deeper levels of probable human occupation were found. The site limits were determined, and evidence was gathered which suggests that the site was originally on an island. This work indicates that core drilling at similar sites in alluvial valle…
Callimachus Swings (FRR. 178 and 43 PF.)
Callimachus fr. 178 Pf. (= 89 Massimilla) tells how the Athenian Pollis—the name is known from a citation in Athenaeus—continued to celebrate Attic festivals in the Alexandria of the poet's own day. At Pollis' party to commemorate the Attic festival in honour of Erigone, the αἰώρα, the poet met Theogenes, a visitor from the Aegean island of Ikos (modern Alonnisos)
Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads: Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts
This volume is a collection of fifteen papers written by a team of international experts in the field of Hellenistic literature. In an attempt to reassess methods such as the detection of intertextual allusions or the general notion of neoteric poetics, the authors combine current critical trends (narratology, genre-theory, aesthetics, cultural studies) with a close reading of Hellenistic texts. Contributions address a wealth of topics in a varie…
Beyond the Rank and File Movement: Mary van Kleeck and Social Work Radicalism in the Great Depression, 1931-1942
In this article we critically examine the radical views and actions of Mary van Kleeck during the Great Depression. As the Director of Industrial Studies for the Russell Sage Foundation, van Kleeck was arguably the most prominent radical woman affiliated with social work during the Great Depression; however, current scholarship has limited her contributions to social work's radical minded rank and file movement. In this study, we redress this sit…
Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century: Text, Translation, and Commentary
The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but also into 4th-century Athenian history, the role of food and dining in antiquity, and the history of the text of Homer and the reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the pre-Alexandrian period. Sens and Olson offer a new text of the 144 surviving lines of Matro's parodies based on a fresh examinat…
Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability
The Neuroscience of Resilience
Although the surge in research into the neuroscience of resilience is relatively new, it has been able to elucidate the brain structures that underlie resilience and identify strategies for supporting brain health and mental health across the lifespan. Despite advances, neuroscientists need the input of social work clinicians and clinical researchers to continue to move the field forward. This article provides a narrative review of the recent lit…
Introduction to the Special Section on Social Work and Neuroscience
Biology plays an important role in many of the problems social workers seek to address, yet few social work investigations assess any aspect of biology or examine the reciprocal interaction between biological characteristics and the social environment. This introduction orients readers to 5 interdisciplinary invited articles comprising a special section on social work and neuroscience, and it discusses the importance of integrating social work an…
Sixteenth-century soil carbon sequestration rates based on Mexican land-grant documents
A significant gap in our understanding of global change involves the linkages between historical land-use and land-cover change (LULCC), Holocene terrestrial carbon (C) pool fluxes, and climate change. To address that research problem, this method uses land grants for sheep ranches awarded in early colonial (1521–1620 CE) Mexico to quantify the amount of land converted from cropland to pastureland. Soil is the largest terrestrial C pool, and conv…
Temples of the Earthbound Gods: Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil
In a famous passage of the third book of the Georgics (3.209–41) Vergil describes two bulls fighting over a formosa iuuenca ; the bull which is at first beaten goes off to recover and prepare, returning to attack again its arrogant opponent. The description of the bull's training blends the toughness of early man, the playfulness of a young animal, the suffering of the exclusus amator and the preparations of a human athlete: ergo omni cura uiris …
Pulling Apollo Apart
This paper considers the etymologising of the names of Apollo in Plato, Cratylus and Plutarch, The E at Delphi . It is argued that the richness of the god’s etymologies in these texts and in classical literature more generally suggests that a special connection was seen between the nature of Apollo and the practices of etymologising; this connection is in part owed to the similarities between etymologising and prophetic speech and practice and in…
Palaephatus,” Strabo, and the Boundaries of Myth
Internal oxidation of cast iron artifacts from an 18th-century steel cementation furnace
Core Drilling in an Archaeological Site
Methods used in taking drill cores at a deeply stratified archaeological site in Kanawha County, West Virginia, are reported. A site exposed by river-bank erosion was tested with six cores, and additional deeper levels of probable human occupation were found. The site limits were determined, and evidence was gathered which suggests that the site was originally on an island. This work indicates that core drilling at similar sites in alluvial valle…
A Clinical Reassessment of the 'Insanity' of George III and Some of its Historical Implications
Ida Macalpine, Richard Hunter; A Clinical Reassessment of the ‘Insanity’ of George III and Some of its Historical Implications, Historical Research, Volume
George III and the Mad-Business
It is a striking account of how physicians thought about their patients and what patients thought about their doctors, all in the contemporary concepts of madness.The blend of comment and quotation is most successful
Robert Boyle's Poem–An Addendum
RICHARD HUNTER, IDA MACALPINE; Robert Boyle's Poem–An Addendum, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXVII, Issue 1, 1 January 19
History, Psychology, and the Study of Deviant Behavior
Military Manpower and the All-Volunteer Force
Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons from the Point of View of a Service Provider
Bulls and Boxers in Apollonius and Vergil
In a famous passage of the third book of the Georgics (3.209–41) Vergil describes two bulls fighting over a formosa iuuenca ; the bull which is at first beaten goes off to recover and prepare, returning to attack again its arrogant opponent. The description of the bull's training blends the toughness of early man, the playfulness of a young animal, the suffering of the exclusus amator and the preparations of a human athlete: ergo omni cura uiris …
The cult of Pan in ancient Greece
(1990). The cult of Pan in ancient Greece. History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 138-139
Greek and Non-Greek in The Argonautica of Apollonius
Breast is Best’: Catullus 64.18
Catullus' use of nutrices for the Nereids' breasts in line 18 of Poem 64 is not perhaps the most important problem in the poem, but it is not without interest and may have significance beyond its narrow context. This ‘weird preciosity’ (R. Jenkyns) has been integrated into a wider reading by Francis Cairns, who interestingly drew attention to Artemidorus 2.37–8 where to dream of Aphrodite emerging from the sea and naked as far as the ζώνη is a go…
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent…
Callimachus Swings (FRR. 178 and 43 PF.)
Callimachus fr. 178 Pf. (= 89 Massimilla) tells how the Athenian Pollis—the name is known from a citation in Athenaeus—continued to celebrate Attic festivals in the Alexandria of the poet's own day. At Pollis' party to commemorate the Attic festival in honour of Erigone, the αἰώρα, the poet met Theogenes, a visitor from the Aegean island of Ikos (modern Alonnisos)
The Novel in the Ancient World
This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series The Classical Tradition. The subject of this volume is that group of works of extended prose narrative fiction which bears many similarities to the modern novel and which appeared in the later classical periods in Greece and Rome. The ancient novel has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years not only among students of literature, but also among those looking for new sources on the popul…
The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica
R. Hunter: The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica 13 The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica Richard Hunter Epic poetry seeks to map the world, both as a physical and as an ideological construct. Just as Homer was the source of all literature, all philosophy, and all political science, so epic is the all-encompassing literary embodiment of all that is known. If it was the Shield of Achilles—itself both microcosm and macrocosmwhich was fo…
Longus and Plato
Before and after Epic: Theocritus (?), Idyll 25
What Is Pastoral
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia
New radiocarbon dates for the Roonka Flat Aboriginal burial ground, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 46(1), pp. 36–37
(B)ionic man: Callimachus' iambic programme
A concern with the methods and style of praise and blame recurs, unsurprisingly, throughout Callimachus' Iambi . The iambos is the aggressive mode par excellence , and Callimachus is the most generically-conscious of poets; whether he is writing hymns, aetiological elegy or funerary epigram he is always overtly engaged with the history and development of the literary form in which he operates. The nature of iambic poetry is, however, the explicit…
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia
Late Holocene Climatic Changes Recorded In Macropod Bone Collagen Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes At Fromms Landing, South Australia." Australian Archaeology, 49(1), pp. 48–49
Studies in Heliodorus
The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica
Studies in Heliodorus
Beyond the Rank and File Movement: Mary van Kleeck and Social Work Radicalism in the Great Depression, 1931-1942
In this article we critically examine the radical views and actions of Mary van Kleeck during the Great Depression. As the Director of Industrial Studies for the Russell Sage Foundation, van Kleeck was arguably the most prominent radical woman affiliated with social work during the Great Depression; however, current scholarship has limited her contributions to social work's radical minded rank and file movement. In this study, we redress this sit…
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