Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. His research interests include Hellenistic poetry, ancient literary and cultural criticism and reception, and ancient drama; he is the author of more than twenty books and over a hundred articles in learned journals. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Fellow of the Academy of Athens; from 2012 to 2016 he served as President of the Council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.