Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

Elected 2009

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2009
Sections: Classical Antiquity
Website: https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-christopher-pelling

Christopher Pelling was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University from 2003-2015. Before that he was McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics from 1975-2003 at University College Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. He has also held visiting professorships at Utah State University, Washington and Lee University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been President of the International Plutarch Society and President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. He has written extensively on Greek and Roman historiography and biography, Greek tragedy, and Roman History. In 2014, he was appointed by Michael Gove to lead a DfE initiative to promote the teaching of Latin in state schools.

Current post

University of Oxford Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek

Past appointments

Christ Church, Oxford Regius Professor of Greek

2003 - 2015

University College, Oxford McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics

1975 - 2003

Publications

Twelve Classical Voices: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press

Plutarch: Life of Caesar

Christopher Pelling - Published in 2011 by Oxford University Press

Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies

Christopher Pelling - Published in 2002 by Classical Press of Wales

Literary Texts and the Greek Historian

Christopher Pelling - Published in 2000 by Routledge

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