PHILIP A. STADTER - Department of Classics - University of North ...

Born: Cleveland, Ohio l936
PHILIP A. STADTER: CURRICULUM VITAE
B.A. Princeton l958, M.A. Harvard l959, Ph.D. Harvard l963.
Laurea honoris causa, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Italy, April 8, 2008
Married l963 to Lucia Ciapponi, 3 Children
POSITIONS:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, l962- :
Instructor l962-64; Assistant Professor l964-67; Associate Professor l967-7l; Professor of Classics l97l-;
Chairman of Department of Classics l976-86; Professor of Comparative Literature 1991-; Eugene H. Falk
Professor in the Humanities 1991-2003, Professor Emeritus 2003-.
President, UNC-CH Chapter AAUP, l979-80.
Board of Governors, The University of North Carolina Press, 1989- 2003.
Director, Lilly Teaching Fellow Program, UNC-CH, 1990-1993
Director l980, Assistant Director, l969, l97l, Vergilian Society Summer School at Cumae, Italy.
Managing Committee, Southeastern Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies l972-74.
Managing Committee, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome l979-83.
President, North Carolina Classical Association l968-69; Secretary l964-67.
Vice-President for North Carolina, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1966-72.
Director, American Philological Association l977-80; Publications Committee, 1996-99.
Executive Board, International Plutarch Society, 1986- ; President 1991-93, 1999-2001.
Société internationale de bibliographique classique, 2000-
FELLOWSHIPS:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, l958-59;
Fulbright Fellowship, 1960-61 (Rome, Italy);
Guggenheim Fellowship, l967-68 (Florence, Italy);
NEH Senior Fellow, l974-75 (Cambridge, Mass.);
ACLS Fellowship, l982-83 (Oxford, England);
National Humanities Center Fellow, 1989-90.
Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS
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EDITOR, American Journal of Philology, 1996-2000; Honorary Editor, 2000-.
EDITOR for Roman Studies, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, l969-l978.
Editorial Board, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 1969-
Editorial Board, American Journal of Philology, 1989-95
Editorial Board, Histos, 1996-
BOOKS:
Plutarch's Historical Methods:.An Analysis of the Mulierum Virtutes (Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, Mass. 1965) 159 pp.
The Public Library of Renaissance Florence: Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo de' Medici and the Library of San
Marco (Editrice Antenore, Padua, Italy 1972) 368 pp. (with B.L. Ullman).
(Editor) The Speeches in Thucydides: A Collection of Original Essays with a Bibliography (University of
North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1973). pp. 172.
A Concordance to Arrian (Department of Classics, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1978). 10
microfiche. (With Jay Bolter).
Arrian of Nicomedia (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1980) pp. 256.
A Concordance to Arrian (APA Aids to Research in Classics 2: Scholar's Press, Chico, California, 1984).
10 microfiche. (With J. David Bolter). Revised edition of 1978 version.
Co-editor (with Jackson P. Hershbell and F. E. Brenk) of Illinois Classical Studies 13.2 (1988), a special
volume of Plutarch studies.
A Commentary on Plutarch’s Pericles (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1989) pp. lxxxv +
416.
(Editor) Plutarch and the Historical Tradition (Routledge, London 1992). (with introduction, pp. 1-9) 188
pp.
Plutarch, Nine Greek Lives, trans. by R. Waterfield with introductions and notes by P. A. Stadter (Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 1998). (Stadter portion, 176 pp.)
Plutarch, Eight Roman Lives, trans. by R. Waterfield with introductions and notes by P. A. Stadter (Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 1999) (Stadter portion, 311 pp.)
Co-editor (with Luc Van der Stockt). Sage and Emperor. Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power
in the time of Trajan (98-117 A.D.). Leuven, Leuven University Press. 2002 [2003]. Symbolae Facultatis
Litterarum Lovaniensis, series A, vol. 29. 354 pages.
Forthcoming:
Co-editor (with Luc Van der Stockt). Weaving Text and Thought. On Composition in Plutarch. (Papers of
a Conference on Composition in Plutarch, Leuven, July 2001). Leuven..
ARTICLES:
"Flavius Arrianus: the New Xenophon," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 8 (1967) 155-161.

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"Special Effects in Plautine Dialogue: Miles Gloriosus, II, iii," Classical Philology 63 (1968) 146-147.
"The Structure of Livy's History," Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte 21 (1972) 287-307.
"Thucydidean Orators in Plutarch," in The Speeches in Thucydides (Chapel Hill 1973) 109-123.
"Planudes, Plutarch, and Pace of Ferrara," Italia Medioevale e Umanistica 16 (1973) 137-162.
"A Match for Alcestis: Plutarch Mor. 243D," Classical Quarterly 25 (1975) 157-58.
"Plutarch's Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 16 (1975)
77-85.
"Xenophon in Arrian's Cynegeticus," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 17 (1976) 157-67.
Art. "Arrianus, Flavius" in Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin
Translations and Commentaries, ed. F. Edward Cranz, vol. III. (Washington, D.C. 1976) 1-20.
"The Ars Tactica of Arrian: Tradition and Originality," Classical Philology 73 (1978) 117-28.
"Arrian's Extended Preface," Illinois Classical Studies 6 (1981) 157-71.
"The Motives for Athens’ Alliance with Corcyra (Thuc. 1.44)," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 24
(1983) 131-36.
"Niccolò Niccoli: Winning Back the Knowledge of the Ancients," in Vestigia: Studi in Onore di Giuseppe
Billanovich (Rome 1984), pp. 747-64.
"Plutarch, Charinus, and the Megarian Decree," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 25 (1984) 351-72.
"The Rhetoric of Plutarch's Pericles," Ancient Society 18 (1987) 251-69.
"The Proems of Plutarch's Lives," Illinois Classical Studies 13.2 (l988) 275-95.
"Introduzione: vita di Pericle di Plutarco; Tavola cronologica; Giudizi critici; Bibliografia," in Plutarco:
Vite parallele: Pericle e Fabio Massimo (Milan 1991) 79-131.
“Pericles and the Intellectuals,” Illinois Classical Studies 16 (1991) 111-24.
“Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia,” American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 461-91.
“Paradoxical Paradigms: Plutarch’s Lysander and Sulla,” in Plutarch and the Historical Tradition
(Routledge, London 1992), ed. P. A. Stadter, 41-55.
“Brief Mention: Thinking about Historians,” American Journal of Philology 113 (1992) 81-85.
"Horace Epistles 1.2.42-43 and Traditional Lore," Classical Quarterly 43 (1993) 341-42.
"Caesarian Tactics and Caesarian Style: Bell. Civ. 1.66-70," Classical Journal 88.3 (1993) 217-21.
“Herodotus and the Athenian Arche,” Annali della Scuola Normale superiore di Pisa, classe di lettere e
filosofia, ser. III, 22 (1992 [1994]) 781-809.

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“Pericles y los intelectuales,” Polis 5 (1993) 227-40. [Translation into Spanish by J. Gomez-Pantoja of
“Pericles and the Intellectuals,” 1991.]
“The Form and Content of Thucydides’ Pentecontaetia (1.89-117),” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
34 (1993) 35-72.
“Plutarch’s Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus,” reprinted in Essays on Plutarch's Lives, ed. B.
Scardigli (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995) 155-64.
“‘Subject to the Erotic’: Male Sexual Behaviour in Plutarch,” in Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for
Donald Russell on his Seventy-fifth Birthday. ed. Doreen Innes, Harry Hines, and Christopher Pelling.
(Oxford 1995) 221-36
“Opening Statement to the Third International Congress of the International Plutarch Society,” Atti del
Terzo congresso internazionale della Società internazionale plutarchea, 7-10 giugno 1993 (Naples 1995). 4
ms. pp.
"The Classicist's Thirst," AJP 117 (1996) 143-44.
“Anecdotes and the Thematic Structure of Plutarchean Biography,” in Estudios sobre Plutarco, IV.
Aspectos formales, ed. José Antonio Fernández Delgado and Francisca Pordomingo Pardo (Madrid,
Ediciones Clásicas, 1996) 291-303.
"Herodotus and the North Carolina Oral Narrative Tradition," Histos 1 (1997). 36 pp. in ms.; 94k in
electronic format on World Wide Web at www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/.
"Philocleon’s Fables: Ancient Storytelling and a Modern Analogue" in Griechisch-römische Komödie und
Tragödie II, Drama. Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, 5 (Stuttgart, M & P Verlag, 1997)
35-47.
Art. "Arrian," in Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) 176: Ancient Greek Authors, ed. by Ward W.
Briggs (Detroit, Washington D.C. and London, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1997). 77-84.
“Plutarch’s Lives: The Statesman as Moral Actor,” in C. Schrader, V. Ramón, and J. Vela, edd., Plutarco y
la historia: Actas del V Simposio Español sobre Plutarco, Zaragoza, 20-22 de junio de 1996. Zaragoza
1997, 65-81.
"Foreward" and "Bibliography" to the second edition of J. R. Hamilton, Plutarch. Alexander. A
Commentary, London, Bristol Classical Press, 1999, vi-xii.
"Philosophos kai philandros: Plutarch's view of Women in the Moralia and the Lives", in Sarah B.
Pomeroy (ed.), Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to his Wife: English
translations, Commentary, Interpretive Essays, and Bibliography, New York and Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1999, 173-182.
"Drinking, Table Talk , and Plutarch's Contemporaries," in Plutarco, Dioniso, y el Vino. Actas del VI
Simposio español sobre Plutarco. Cadiz, 14-16 de Mayo de 1998.J. G. Montes Cala, M. Sánchez Ortiz de
Landaluce, R. J. Gallé Cejudo (eds.). Madrid, Ediciones clásicas, 1999, 481-90.
"Plato in Plutarch's Lives of Lycurgus and Agesilaus" in A. Pérez Jiménez, J. García López & R. M a
Aguilar (eds.), Plutarco, Platón y Aristóteles. Actas del V Congreso Internacional de la I.P.S. (Madrid-
Cuenca, 4-7 de mayo de 1999), Madrid, Ediciones clásicas, 1999, 475-86.

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"The Rhetoric of Virtue in Plutarch's Lives," in L. Van der Stockt (ed.), Rhetorical Theory and Praxis in
Plutarch, Acts of the IV. International Congress, International Plutarch Society, Leuven, Belgium, July 3-6,
1996. Leuven, Peeters, 2000, 493-510.
"What Made Pericles a Leader?" The Key Reporter 65, 4(Summer 2000) 2-3.

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"The Ruler's Virtue and the Empire: Cyrus the Great and Tiberius," in The Dance of Hippocleides: a
Festschrift for Frank J. Frost, R. M. Frakes and David L. Toye (editors). Ancient World 31, 2 (2000) 163-
72.
"Historical Thought in Ancient Greece" in A Companion to Western Historical Thought, L. Kramer and S.
Maza, eds. Oxford, Blackwell, 2002, 35-59. Paperback edition 2006.
"Paidagogia pros to theion: Plutarch's Numa," in C. Callaway, ed., Ancient Journeys: A Festshrift in Honor
of Eugene Numa Lane, available at http://www.stoa.org/lane/ (April 2002). 25 pp. in typescript.
"Plutarch's Lives and Their Roman Readers," in Greek Romans and Roman Greeks. Studies in cultural
interaction, ed. by Erik Nis Ostenfeld, Aarhus, Aarhus University Press 2002, 123-35.
"Introduction: Plutarch in his Greek and Roman context," in Sage and Emperor. Plutarch, Greek
Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the time of Trajan (98-117 A.D.). P. A. Stadter and L. Van der Stockt
(eds.). Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2002, 1-26.
"Plutarch and Trajanic Ideology ," in Sage and Emperor. Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power
in the time of Trajan (98-117 A.D.). P. A. Stadter and L. Van der Stockt (eds.). Leuven, Leuven University
Press, 2002, 227-41.
"Parlare ai sordi: Erodoto, il suo pubblico e gli Spartani all'inizio della guerra peloponnesiaca". In A.
Casanova and P. Desideri (eds.), Evento, racconto, scrittura nell'antichità classica. Atti del convegno
internazionale di studii, Firenze, 25-26 Novembre 2002. Florence 2003, 21-34.
"Sono da imitare gli eroi di Plutarco?" in Modelli eroici dall'antichità alla cultura europea, Bergamo, 20-22
novembre 2001, a cura di A. Barzanò, C. Bearzot, F. Landucci, L. Prandi, and G. Zecchini, Rome, L'Erma
di Bretschneider, 2003, 415-25.
"Mirroring Virtue in Plutarch's Lives," Ploutarchos n.s. 1 (2003/2004) 89-95.
"Plutarch: Diplomat for Delphi?" in De Blois, L., et al. (eds.), The Statesman in Plutarch’s Works.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society, Nijmegen/Castle
Hernen, May 1-5, 2002, vol. I. Plutarch’s Statesman and his Aftermath: Political, Philosophical, and
Literary Aspects. Leiden and Boston 2004, 19-31.
"From the mythical to the historical paradigm. The transformation of myth in Herodotus." in Historia y
Mito. El pasado legendario como fuente de autoridad (Actas del Simposio Internacional celebrado en
Sevilla, Valverde del Camino y Huelva entre el, 22 y el 25 de abril de 2003), Málaga 2005, 31-46.
"Sono da imitare gli eroi di Plutarco?" reprinted in Plutarco Sertorio Eumene, Milan 2004, 29-43, and
successive volumes of this series (Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, Classici greci e latini, Plutarco Vite
parallele).
"Plutarco fra Presente e Passato," in Jufresa, M. et al (eds.), Plutarc a la seva època: Paideia i societat,
(Actas del VIII Simposio Español sobre Plutarco, Barcelona, 6-8 de noviembre de 2003, Barcelona, 2005.
653-58.
"Revisiting Plutarch's Lives of the Caesars," in A. Pérez Jiménez and F. Titchener (ed.), Valori Letterari
delle Opere di Plutarco. Studi offerti al Professore Italo Gallo dall’International Plutarch Society, Malaga-
Logan Utah 2005, 419-35.
“Plutarch and Apollo of Delphi”, in R. Hirsch-Luipold (ed.), Gott und die Götter bei Plutarch.
Götterbilder--Gottesbilder--Weltbilder, Berlin and New York, W. de Gruyter, 2005, pp. 197-214.

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“Pliny and the Ideology of Empire: the Correspondence with Trajan”, Prometheus 32 (2006) 61-76.
"Herodotus and the Cities of Mainland Greece," in Cambridge Companion to Herodotus, C. Dewald and J.
Marincola, (eds.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 242-56.
“Plutarco e la formazione dell’ideologia traianea,” in P. Volpe Cacciatore and Franco Ferrari (ed.),
Plutarco e la cultura della sua età. Atti del X Convegno plutarcheo Fisciano-Paestum, 27--29 ottobre 2005.
Napoli, M. D’Auria, 2007, pp.189-204.
“Herbert Bloch,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007) 716-19.
“History and Biography,” in J. Marincola (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman
Historiography. London 2007, 2: 528-40.
In press:
"Before Pen Touched Paper: Plutarch's Preparations for the Parallel Lives." in Weaving Text and Thought.
On Composition in Plutarch. L. van der Stockt and P. A. Stadter, eds. Leuven. 43 pp. in typescript.
“Competition and its Costs: Philonikia in Plutarch” in Virtues for the People: Plutarch and his Era on
Desirable Ethics. Leuven. 20 pp. in typescript.
“Notes and Anecdotes: Observations on Cross-Genre Apophthegmata” in Acts of the Seventh International
Congress of the International Plutarch Society, Rethymno, 4-8 May 2005, Rethymno. 24 pp. in typescript.
“Parallels in Three Dimensions,” in N. Humble (ed.), Plutarch’s Parallels. University Press of Wales. 39 pp. in
typescript.
“Character in Politics,” in R. Balot (ed.) A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, London. 28 pp. in
typescript.
“Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia”, reprint with changes and addendum in V. Gray (ed.) Oxford
Readings in Xenophon, , Oxford.
"The Structure of Livy's History,” reprint with addenda and translations in C. S. Kraus and J. Chaplin
(eds.), Oxford Readings in Livy, Oxford.
“The Proems of Plutarch's Lives” and “Anecdotes and the Thematic Structure of Plutarchean Biography,”
reprints with changes in T. Duff (ed.), Oxford Readings in Ancient Biography , Oxford.

REVIEWS:
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Karl-Ernst Petzold, Studien zur Methode des Polybios (Vestigia 9, Munich 1969) in Classical World 64
(1970-71) 162.
C.J. Giankaris, Plutarch (New York 1970) in Classical World 65 (1971-72) 23.
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