Philip Austin Stadter (November 29, 1936 – February 11, 2021) was a leading American scholar of Greek historiography and an authority on the author

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. Stadter was a long-time faculty member of

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Education

Stadter earned his bachelor's degree at

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in 1958 and then completed a doctorate in Classics at

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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

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where he carried out a project entitled "Greek Historical Narrative and the Purpose of the Past".https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/philip-a-stadter-1989-1990/ Philip A. Stadter, 1989–1990

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Princeton University alumni Harvard University alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Classical scholars of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1936 births 2021 deaths American classical scholars People from Cleveland {{classical-scholar-stub