Jeff Hunt, Ph.D

Education

• Ph.D., Classics, Brown University, 2009
• B.A., Greek and Latin, Baylor University, 2003

Specialties

• Hellenistic Poetry
• Research Interests

Research Interests

Dr. Hunt has interests in Hellenistic poetry, the Greek novel, and Roman Elegy. He has written on Theocritus’ Idylls and is currently working on a study of Hellenistic approaches to genre.

Selected Publications

• Classics from Papyrus to the Internet co-authored with Alden Smith and Fabio Stok, University of Texas Press, 2017
• “Tradition and Succession in Theocritus’ Bucolic Poetry” Hellenstica Groningana 21 (2017): 83-100
• “Elegy in a Landscape: An Analysis of Propertius 1.18” Latomus 72 (2013): 135-151
• “The Politics of Death in Theocritus’ First Idyll,” AJP 132 (2011): 379-96.
• “Bucolic Experimentation in Theocritus’ Idyll 10,” GRBS 49 (2009): 391-412.

Recent Papers

• “Hecate’s Cure for Lovesickness” CAMWS, Lincoln, NE, 2019
• “Homer’s Hellenistic Audience” CAMWS, Albuquerque, NM, 2018
• “Theocritean Anti-Bucolic” CAMWS, Waterloo, Canada, 2017
• “Poetic Resonance in Herodas’ Mimiamb 3” CAMWS, Williamsburg, VA, 2016
• “The Poetics of Mime(sis) in Herodas” CAMWS, Waco, TX, 2014
• Tradition and Succession in Theocritus’ Bucolic Poetry Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry, Groningen, Netherlands, 2013
• “Becoming Bucolic in Idylls 1 and 7” CAMWS, Iowa City, IA, 2013