Philip A. Stadter

Philip Austin Stadter was a leading American scholar of Greek historiography and an authority on the author Plutarch. Stadter was a long-time faculty member of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Education

Stadter earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1958 and then completed a doctorate in Classics at Harvard University in 1962. His Harvard dissertation -- The Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch—was published in 1965 as Plutarch's Historical Methods: An Analysis of the Mulierum Virtutes.

Career

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".