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The author: Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek
at the University of Oxford. He first studied Greek and Latin at
Cardiff High School. His publications include commentaries on Plutarch's
Antony (Cambridge, 1988) and Philopoemen and Flaminius (in Italian,
1997). His Literary Texts and the Greek Historian was published
in 2000.
Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence
supplied by Plutarch. The historical methods and qualities of this
vital source were for long subjected to little systematic analysis.
However, over the last two decades an authoritative and profoundly
influential set of studies has appeared in the field, the work of
Christopher Pelling. Dispersed until now in a wide range of international
journals and symposia, these fifteen studies are here published
in a single volume, revised by the author with up-to-date annotations
and bibliography. Together with three new studies, they form an
essential reference-work for serious students of classical Greece
and Rome.
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