Gregory Hutchinson (classicist)
{{Short description|British classicist and academic (born 1957)}}
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| birth_name = Gregory Owen Hutchinson
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| discipline = Classics
| sub_discipline = Latin literature
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| education = City of London School
| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford
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Exeter College, Oxford
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Gregory Owen Hutchinson (born 5 December 1957), known as G. O. Hutchinson, is a British classicist and academic, specialising in Latin literature, Ancient Greek literature, and Latin and Ancient Greek languages. Since October 2015, he has been the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, and a Student (i.e. Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.
Early life and education
Hutchinson was born on 5 December 1957 in Hackney, London, England.{{cite web|title=HUTCHINSON, Prof. Gregory Owen|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U284662|website=Who's Who 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=13 September 2016|date=November 2015}} He was educated at the City of London School, an all-boys private school in the City of London; he had been granted one of the free places funded by the Inner London Education Authority. He studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979. He remained at Balliol to undertake postgraduate research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1983. His doctoral thesis was titled "Aeschylus' Septem Contra Thebas: Text and commentary".{{cite web|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Aeschylus' Septem Contra Thebas: Text and commentary|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.347340|website=E-These Online Service|publisher=The British Library|accessdate=13 September 2016|year=1983}}
Academic career
From 1981 to 1984, while a postgraduate student, Hutchinson was also a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Prof. Gregory O. Hutchinson|url=http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/gregoryhutchinson.html|website=Faculty of Classics|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=16 October 2015}} He was then a Tutor in classics at Exeter between 1984 and 2015. From 1996 to 1998, he was also Reader in Classical Literature in the Faculty of Classics. From 1998 to 2015, he was also Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.{{cite web|title=Professor Gregory Hutchinson|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/248|website=Exeter College, Oxford|accessdate=29 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912162926/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/248|archive-date=12 September 2015|url-status=dead}}
In June 2015, Hutchinson was named as the next Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford following the retirement of Christopher Pelling, FBA, earlier in the year.{{cite web|title=Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford: Gregory Hutchinson|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regius-professor-of-greek-university-of-oxford-gregory-hutchinson|website=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|accessdate=29 June 2015|date=29 June 2015}} He took up the appointment on 1 October 2015 and moved colleges to become a Student (equivalent to a fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Professor Gregory Hutchinson appointed Regius Professor of Greek|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/1804|website=Exeter College, Oxford|accessdate=29 June 2015|date=23 June 2015}}
Personal life
Selected works
- {{cite book|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Hellenistic poetry|date=1988|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0198140405}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Latin literature from Seneca to Juvenal: a critical study|date=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0198146902}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Cicero's correspondence: a literary study|date=1998|publisher=Clarendon|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0198150664}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Greek lyric poetry: a commentary on selected larger pieces; Alcman, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides, Bacchylides, Pindar, Sophocles, Euripides|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199240173}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Talking books: readings in Hellenistic and Roman books of poetry|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199279418}}
- {{cite book|last1=Hutchinson|first1=G. O.|title=Greek to Latin: frameworks and contexts for intertextuality|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199670703}}
- Hutchinson, G. O. (2018). Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780198821717}}
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Category:British classical scholars
Category:Scholars of Ancient Greek
Category:Scholars of ancient Greek literature
Category:Regius Professors of Greek (University of Oxford)
Category:Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
Category:People from Hackney Central
Category:People educated at the City of London School