PeterÌýHunt
- Professor • Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
- CLASSICS
Peter HuntÌý(M.A. ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder 1988, Ph.D. Stanford 1994), a classical Greek historian, studies warfare and society, slavery, historiography and oratory. His first book,ÌýSlaves, Warfare and Ideology in the Greek HistoriansÌý(Cambridge 1998), discerns a conflict between the extent of slave and Helot participation in Greek warfare and the representation of their role in contemporary historians. His second bookÌýWar, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' AthensÌý(Cambridge 2010), uses the evidence of deliberative oratory as evidence for Athenian thinking and feelings about foreign relations. It was reviewed in theÌýTimes Literary SupplementÌýand won the Kayden Prize (University of Colorado).ÌýHis third book, a survey onÌýAncient Greek and Roman Slavery, came out from Wiley Blackwell in 2018.ÌýÌýIn addition to various articles and reviews, he has contributed chapters toÌýTheÌýOxford Handbook of Demosthenes,ÌýBrill's Companion to Thucydides, The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, The Cambridge World History of Slavery,ÌýandÌýThe Cambridge History of the World. ÌýAmong other current projects, he is beginning work on a commentary on Plutarch’sÌýPhocion.