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Philip A. Stadter

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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

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.

Education

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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

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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

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  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