Prof. Christopher B. R. Pelling MA, Dphil

Regius Professor, Faculty of Classics

Christ Church
Oxford,
OX1 1DP

Tel: (01865) 276204

chris.pelling@chch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Greek and Latin Literature and Historiography

Selected Recent Publications

1997: Greek Tragedy and the Historian (ed.), Oxford.
1997: 'Is death the end? Closure in Plutarch's Lives', in Classical Closure: Endings in Ancient Literature eds. D.Roberts, F.M.Dunn and D. Fowler, Princeton, 228-50.
1997: 'Aeschylus' Persae and History' in Greek Tragedy and the Historian, ed. C.Pelling, Oxford, 1-19.
2000: .
2000: 'Fun with fragments: Athenaeus and the historians', in Athenaeus and his World, eds. D. Braund and J. Wilkins, Exeter University Press, 171-90.
2000: Literary Texts and the Greek Historian, Routledge, London.
2001: 'Anything truth can do, we can do better: the Cleopatra legend', in Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth, eds. S. Walker and P. Higgs, British Museum Publications, 292-301.
2002: Plutarch and History, Classical Press of Wales.
2002: 'Speech and narrative: Herodotus' debate on the constitutions', Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 48, 123-58.

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