| Honorific Prefix: | Prof. |
| Philip A. Stadter | |
| Birth Date: | 29 November 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Death Place: | Pittsboro, North Carolina |
| Occupation: | Classical scholar |
| Known For: | Greek historiography |
| Education: | A.B. (1958); Ph.D. (1962) |
| Alma Mater: | Princeton University; Harvard University |
| Thesis Title: | The Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch |
| Thesis Year: | 1962 |
| Discipline: | Classicist |
| Workplaces: | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Philip Austin Stadter (November 29, 1936 – February 11, 2021)[1] was a leading American scholar of Greek historiography and an authority on the author Plutarch.[2] Stadter was a long-time faculty member of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Stadter earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1958 and then completed a doctorate in Classics at Harvard University in 1962.[1] His Harvard dissertation -- The Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch[3] —was published in 1965 as Plutarch's Historical Methods: An Analysis of the Mulierum Virtutes.[4]
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".[5]