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(1936-11-29)November 29, 1936
Cleveland, Ohio
DiedFebruary 11, 2021(2021-02-11) (aged 84)
OccupationClassical scholar
Known forGreek historiography
Academic background
EducationA.B. (1958); Ph.D. (1962)
Alma materPrinceton University; Harvard University
Thesis'The Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch' (1962)
Academic work
DisciplineClassicist
InstitutionsThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Education

edit

Stadter 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

edit

In 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
  1. ^ a b "Philip Stadter Obituary (1936 - 2021) - Pittsboro, NC - The News & Observer". www.legacy.com.
  2. ^ Philip A. Stadter (2015). Plutarch and His Roman Readers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871833-8.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/philip-a-stadter-1989-1990/ Philip A. Stadter, 1989–1990