Peter Hunt Professor Department of Classics University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0248
[email protected] office: 303-492-6447 I) Academic Career A) Education Ph.D. Classics, Stanford University, September 1994 Scholar Exchange Program, Princeton University, 1990–91 M.A. Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder, June 1988 B.A. Chemistry (minor Ancient History) with Honors, Swarthmore College, June 1984 (Robert F. Pasternack, David Sidney, Peter A. Hunt, Elizabeth A. Snowden, J. Gibbs, “Interactions of water soluble porphyrins with Z-poly(dG-dC),” Nucleic Acids Research 14.9 (1986) 3927–3943.) B) Academic Positions University of Colorado, Boulder: Assistant Professor, 2000–2004, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 2003–2005, 2006-2007, Associate Professor, 2004–, Chair 2009-2012, Professor 2011– Harvard University, Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 2009 Davidson College: Visiting Assistant Professor, 1997–99 Vassar College: Visiting Assistant Professor, 1996–97 Stanford University: Teaching Fellow and Lecturer, 1994–96 II) Scholarship A) Books Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Paperback reprint, 2002. Chapter 7 reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 117 (2010). War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens. Cambridge University Press, 2010. Winner of the Kayden Book Prize (University of Colorado). Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. The dilemmas of defeat and the afterlife of Phocion the Good: a commentary on Plutarch’s Life of Phocion. In preparation. B) Peer-Refereed Journal Articles "The Helots at the Battle of Plataea," Historia 46.2 (1997): 129–44. "The Slaves and the Generals of Arginusae," American Journal of Philology 123.3 (2001): 363–84.