Philip A. Stadter

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
Died	February 11, 2021(2021-02-11) (aged 84) Pittsboro, North Carolina
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

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

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]