Christopher Pelling

Christopher Brendan Reginald Pelling (born December 14, 1947 ) is a British Graecist and emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University .

Life

Christopher Pelling was educated at Cardiff High School and was a Senior Scholar at Balliol College , Oxford in the 1960s . He was then a Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College Oxford for twenty-nine years . He broke new ground by analyzing historical texts from Tacitus to Plutarch. In 2003 he returned to Christ Church College Oxford and became Regius Professor of Greek. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2009.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor: Characterization and individuality in Greek literature . Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-814058-4 .
• Literary texts and the Greek historian . London 2000, ISBN 0-415-07350-2 .
• Plutarch and History. Eighteen Studies . London 2002, ISBN 0-7156-3128-4 .
• Plutarch's Caesar . Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-814904-0 .

Web links

• Professor Christopher Pelling

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter J. Parsons	Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University 2003–2015	Gregory Hutchinson