Philip Austin Stadter (November 29, 1936 – February 11, 2021) 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.Zecchini, Giuseppe. “PHILIP AUSTIN STADTER (1936-2021).” Aevum 95, no. 1 (2021): 211–12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27119570.
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"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.—was published in 1965 as Plutarch's Historical Methods: An Analysis of the Mulierum Virtutes.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
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".
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