Philip Austin Stadter (November 29, 1936 – February 11, 2021)[1] was a leading American scholar of Greek historiography and an authority on the author Plutarch.[2] Stadter was a long-time faculty member of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Prof. Philip A. Stadter | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 29, 1936 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Died | February 11, 2021 (aged 84) |
| Occupation | Classical scholar |
| Known for | Greek historiography |
| Academic background | |
| Education | A.B. (1958); Ph.D. (1962) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University; Harvard University |
| Thesis | 'The Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch' (1962) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classicist |
| Institutions | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Education
editStadter earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1958 and then completed a doctorate in Classics at Harvard University in 1962.[1] His Harvard dissertation -- The Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch[3]—was published in 1965 as Plutarch's Historical Methods: An Analysis of the Mulierum Virtutes.[4]
Career
editIn 1989-1990, Stadter held a fellowship at the National Humanities Center where he carried out a project entitled "Greek Historical Narrative and the Purpose of the Past".[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Philip Stadter Obituary (1936 - 2021) - Pittsboro, NC - The News & Observer". www.legacy.com.
- ^ Philip A. Stadter (2015). Plutarch and His Roman Readers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871833-8.
- ^ "Summaries of Dissertations for the Degree of Ph. D. (1963)." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 68 (1964): 411-22. Accessed March 4, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/310814.
- ^ G. Bagnani, Plutarch's Historical Methods: An Analysis of the Mulierum Virtutes. By Philip A. Stadter. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1965. Pp. viii, 159. $4.00.), The American Historical Review, Volume 72, Issue 1, October 1966, Pages 140–141, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/72.1.140
- ^ https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/philip-a-stadter-1989-1990/ Philip A. Stadter, 1989–1990
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