Philip A Stadter

Biographic Data

ID983535
NAMEPhilip A Stadter
GIVEN NAMESPhilip A
FAMILY NAMEStadter
SIGNATURESTADTER P A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX5

  • Plutarch and His Roman Readers

    Philip A StadterBOOKPlutarch and His Roman Readers2014

    Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the centuries to a wide audience, persons as diverse as Beethoven and Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare and Harry Truman. This collection of essays on Plutarch's Parallel Lives examines the moral issues Plutarch recognized behind political leadership, and relates his writings to …

  • The Justice of Trajan in Pliny Epistles 10 and Plutarch

    Philip A StadterCHAPTERPlutarch and His Roman Readers2014

    In this chapter it is shown that study of Pliny’s artful correspondence with Trajan (Epistles 10) and Plutarch’s statements reveals that Plutarch shared the ideology of the just ruler articulated by Pliny, his Roman contemporary, and that Trajan’s public stance reflected Plutarch’s own ideals. Plutarch stressed the necessity of justice in a true ruler in several lives, including Numa, Demetrius, Agesilaus, Alexander, and Antony. Pliny’s tenth boo…

  • Friends or Patrons?

    Philip A StadterCHAPTERPlutarch and His Roman Readers2014

    This chapter considers his most important friends, including Sosius Senecio and Mestrius Florus, who would also have been patrons. Under the influence of recent books on patronage in Flavian Rome, it considers how their patronage might have been exercised and its effect on Plutarch’s works. Beginning with an analysis of Rom. 13 on the ideal of Roman patronage, it reviews evidence of patronage for the Greek historians of Rome Polybius, Posidonius,…

  • ‘Staying Up Late’: Plutarch’s Reading of Xenophon

    Philip A Stadter, Philip StadterCHAPTERXenophon2012

    Among the great classical authors, Xenophon was especially similar to Plutarch. This chapter demonstrates that Xenophon was much more than a stylistic model or a historical source for Plutarch. Through his frequent nonhistorical citations, borrowings, and allusions Plutarch transforms Xenophon, and with him classical Greek culture, into a new/old blend, incorporating the classical author into a contemporary imperial setting. This process function…

  • Biography

    Open AccessPhilip A StadterCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The genre of ancient biography, defined as a self‐sufficient account of the kind of life led by a historical person that also evaluates the subject's character, goals, and achievements, though closely related to history, is distinct from it.

  • Thucydides as ‘Reader’ of Herodotus

    Philip A StadterCHAPTERThucydides and Herodotus2012

    This chapter shows that Thucydides, like Herodotus, resolved to write a work that would bring out the role of human nature in historical events. He intended, however, to express himself even more clearly and forcefully than the Halicarnassian, and in a manner more appropriate for a citizen of an imperial city, one who knew power at first hand. In interpreting Herodotus, Thucydides rethought his predecessor's modes of presentation, subject, and th…

  • Speaking to the Deaf: Herodotus, his Audience, and the Spartans at the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War

    Open AccessPhilip A StadterARTICLEHistos2012Cited by: 2References: 2

    This paper argues that Herodotus hoped that his account of his investigations, among other purposes, would warn his contemporary audience of listeners and readers of the dangers of imperialist ambitions not only in Athens but also in Sparta. Through key episodes and personalities (Tegea, Cleomenes, Leonidas, the Isthmus wall), Herodotus portrays the Spartans as paradoxically both imperialist and isolationist. He implies that Greeks should not tru…

  • Alexander Hamilton's Notes on Plutarch in His Pay Book

    Open AccessPhilip A Stadter, Philip StadterARTICLEThe Review of Politics2011References: 3

    Alexander Hamilton's notes to his reading of two pairs of Plutarch's Parallel Lives , Theseus-Romulus and Lycurgus-Numa , probably made in the winter of 1777–1778 at Valley Forge, reveal his early attention to the rewards of founding a new state, the natures and advantages of different political institutions, and economic, social, military, and cultural practices. They furnish a valuable testament to Hamilton's early intellectual development. He …

  • Biography and History

    Open AccessPhilip A Stadter, Philip StadterOTHERA Companion to Greek and Roman…2007

    “There is properly no history, only biography,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, slicing with a stroke the Gordian knot entangling the two genres. Aristotle explains that history is “what Alcibiades did and suffered”, but that definition encompasses not only Thucydides and Xenophon but also Nepos and Plutarch. In fact, it is often quite difficult to distinguish history from biography, even with the most careful analysis, nor did the ancients do so cons…

  • A Memorial to Herbert Bloch (1911-2006)

    Open AccessPhilip A StadterARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2007

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  • Herodotus and the cities of mainland Greece

    Open AccessPhilip A Stadter, Philip StadterCHAPTER2006

    This much I know: if everyone in the world were to bring his own evils along to market to barter them with his neighbours, a glimpse of his neighbours’ evils would make him happy to take back home those he had brought. The Argives didn’t act more shamefully than others. (Hdt. 7.152) Herodotus no doubt violated the expectations of his Spartan, Athenian, Theban, and Corinthian audiences. Reading his written text, they discovered that when he promis…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

    Open AccessRobert Fowler, Jasper Griffin et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to…2006

    Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' tradi…

  • Plutarch and the Historical Tradition

    Philip A StadterBOOKPlutarch and the Historical…2002

  • Perikles and His Circle

    Philip A Stadter, Philip Stadter et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2000

  • Greek lives: A selection of nine Greek lives

    Plutarch Plutarch, Robin Waterfield et al.BOOKGreek lives1998

    IN ADDITION TO USUAL OWC APPARATUS: 3 MAPS, APPENDIX ON MEASURES OF MONEY, WEIGHT, CAPACITY, LENGTH, INDEX OF LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOURCES CITED BY PLUTARCH, INDEX OF PROPER NAMES

  • Philocleon’s Fables: Ancient Storytelling and a Modern Analogue

    Open AccessPhilip A StadterCHAPTERGriechisch-römische Komödie und…1997

    “Come now,” Bdelycleon says to his father Philocleon, “do you know how to tell serious stories? Men will be present who are clever and know a lot.” Philocleon suggests stories of Lamia or little kneading trough and its mother, but Bdelycleon has a different kind in mind: “Not fairy-tales, but stories of people, the kind we tell most often, normal stories.”1 (Ar. Vesp. 1174–81).

  • A Commentary on Thucydides

    Philip A Stadter, Simon HornblowerREVIEWThe American Journal of Philology1993

  • Horace, Epistles 1.2.42–43 and Traditional Lore

    Open AccessPhilip A StadterARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1993

    Stephanie West suggested in a note in this journal (40 (1990), 280) that the presence of an anecdote in Lodovico Guicciardini's sixteenth-century L'Hore di Ricreatione furnishes a parallel for the fable alluded to by Horace, Ep . 1.2.42–3: ‘Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis: at ille / labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.’ The parallels, and a third from nineteenth-century Sicily, allow her to imagine a tale, ‘part of Italian traditional…

  • Plutarch and the Historical Tradition

    Philip A StadterBOOKPlutarch and the Historical…1992

  • A Commentary on Plutarch's Pericles

    Anthony J Podlecki, Philip A Stadter et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1992

  • A Commentary on Plutarch's Pericles

    Matthew R Christ, Philip A StadterARTICLEThe Classical World1991

    Plutarch's Life of Pericles is one of the outstanding works of ancient biography. Called by some a coward and others a boor, Pericles was a genius as a statesman. He ruled Athens like a monarch between 441 and 430 B.C., a period of great political and intellectual achievement. In the first comprehensive commentary in this century on Plutarch's text, Philip Stadter explores both the literary and historical aspects of this extraordinary work, which…

  • Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia

    Philip A StadterARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1991Cited by: 22

  • From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation

    Philip A Stadter, A B BosworthARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1989Cited by: 5

  • A Historical Commentary on Thucydides

    Philip A Stadter, A W GommeREVIEWThe American Historical Review1983

  • Arrian of Nicomedia

    A B Bosworth, Philip A StadterARTICLEPhoenix1982Cited by: 19

    A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable source for Alexander the Great and the author of three other major historical works and a number of shorter essays and treatises. This, the first book-length study of Arrian in English in this century, makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Greek historiography and of the intellectual life…