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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Brendan Reginald Pelling, FLSW is a British classical scholar. He was the Regius Professor of Greek, at Christ Church, Oxford, from 2003 to 2015. He was President of the Hellenic Society from 2006 to 2008.

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Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (1991) (112)
Plutarch's adaptation of his source-material (1980) (106)
Plutarch's method of work in the Roman Lives (1979) (101)
Literary texts and the Greek historian (2000) (91)
Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (1997) (87)
Plutarch: Life of Antony (1988) (86)
Greek tragedy and the historian (1997) (81)
East is east and west is west - or are they? : national stereotyping in Herodotus (2007) (72)
Life of Antony (1988) (63)
Homer and Herodotus (2006) (53)
Xenophon’s and Caesar’s third-person narratives—or are they? (2013) (51)
Educating Croesus: talking and learning in Herodotus' Lydian logos (2006) (51)
Bringing Autochthony Up-to-Date: Herodotus and Thucydides (2009) (46)
4. Tacitus and Germanicus (1993) (38)
Speech and action: Herodotus' debate on the constitutions (2002) (36)
Plutarch and History: Eighteen studies (2002) (34)
Fall of the Roman Republic (1954) (33)
Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman (2010) (31)
Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA) (2010) (28)
Puppes Sinistrorsum Citae (1986) (27)
CITATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF TRADITION IN LIVY’S AUC* (2013) (27)
THUCYDIDES‘ ARCHIDAMUS AND HERODOTUS’ ARTABANUS (1991) (25)
The triumviral period (1996) (25)
Fun with fragments: Athenaeus and the historians (2000) (23)
Speech and narrative in the Histories (2006) (23)
Childhood and personality in Greek biography (1990) (21)
Plutarch: Roman heroes and Greek culture (1989) (19)
Tragical Dreamer: Some Dreams in the Roman Historians (1997) (19)
The moralism of Plutarch's Lives (1995) (16)
Aspects of Plutarch's Characterisation (1988) (14)
The urine and the vine: Astyages' dreams at Herodotus 1.107–8 (1996) (14)
Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture (2007) (13)
Biographical history? Cassius Dio on the early principate (1997) (13)
Herodotus: Histories Book V (2013) (12)
Is death the end? Closure in Plutarch's Lives (1997) (11)
New worlds from old texts:revisiting ancient space and place (2015) (11)
Plutarch and Roman politics (1995) (10)
Herodotus and Samos (2011) (10)
The first biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius (2009) (10)
Do Plutarch's politicians never learn? (2004) (9)
“Learning from that violent schoolmaster”: Thucydidean Intertextuality and Some Greek Views of Roman Civil War (2010) (8)
Plutarch, Alexander and Caesar: Two New Fragments? (1973) (8)
Caesar's battle-descriptions and the defeat of Ariovistus (1981) (7)
The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (1973) (7)
Sapere XVI - On the daimonion of Socrates. Human liberation, divine guidance and philosophy (2010) (7)
Herodotus and the Question Why (2019) (7)
Be careful how you point that thing: Wiimote aiming for large displays (2009) (7)
Dionysiac Diagnostics: some Hints of Dionysus in Plutarch's "Lives" (1999) (6)
New worlds out of old texts: developing techniques for the spatial analysis of ancient narratives (2011) (6)
De malignitate Plutarchi: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian Wars (2007) (6)
Plutarch's Socrates (2005) (6)
Intertextuality without Texts in Archaic Greek Verse and the Plan of Zeus (2017) (6)
Judging Julius Caesar (2008) (5)
Tacitus’ personal voice (2010) (5)
Anything truth can do, we can do better: the Cleopatra legend (2001) (5)
Plutarch's Caesar: a Caesar for the Caesars? (2002) (5)
Aristotle’s Rhetoric, the Rhetorica and Alexandrum, and the Speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides* (2012) (5)
Breaking the bounds: writing about Julius Caesar (2007) (5)
Plutarch and Catiline (1985) (5)
Herodotus: Histories Book VI (2017) (5)
What is Popular About Plutarch’s ‘Popular Philosophy’? (2011) (4)
Speech and narrative (2006) (4)
Space-Travelling in Herodotus 5 (2016) (4)
Ion's epidemiai and Plutarch's Ion (2007) (4)
IS THE PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD? THE FAILURE OF RHETORIC IN PLUTARCH’S DEMOSTHENES (2011) (4)
Two Human-Like Imitation-Learning Bots with Probabilistic Behaviors (2019) (4)
The Greek Historians of Rome (2007) (4)
The Spur of Fame: Annals 4.37–8 (2010) (3)
Herodotus' Persian Stories: Narrative Shape and Historical Interpretation (2017) (3)
Reading Herodotus: Aristagoras (5.49–55, 97) (2007) (3)
Life of Alexander (2018) (3)
Putting the ‐viv‐ into ‘Convivial’The Table Talk and the Lives (2011) (3)
Sophocles' learning curve (2007) (3)
Xenophon’s Authorial Voice (2016) (3)
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times (2014) (3)
Mapping the World of an Ancient Greek Historian: The HESTIA Project (2010) (3)
Modern fantasy and ancient dreams (1999) (3)
Herodotus and Homer (2006) (3)
Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5 (2015) (2)
Tragic Colouring in Plutarch (2016) (2)
Seeing through Caesar's eyes: focalisation and interpretation (2009) (2)
Rhetoric of The Roman Revolution (2016) (2)
Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories (2013) (2)
Herodotus, Polycrates – and Maybe Stesimbrotus Too? (2016) (1)
Plutarch on the Great Battles of Greece (2019) (1)
Life of Kimon (1989) (1)
Fame and Infamy . Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography (2016) (1)
Plutarch the Multiculturalist: Is West always Best? (2016) (1)
Rome in crisis : nine lives : Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sertorius, Lucullus, Younger Cato, Brutus, Antony, Galba, Otho (2010) (1)
Parallel narratives: the liberation of Thebes in De Genio Socratis and in Pelopidas (2008) (1)
Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies@@@Plutarch (2003) (1)
On using a digital resources for the study of an ancient text: the case of Herodotus’ Histories (2013) (1)
10. Political Philosophy (2013) (1)
Index Volume 102 (2009) (0)
SUETONIUS. T. Power, R.K. Gibson (edd.) Suetonius the Biographer. Studies in Roman Lives . Pp. xii + 338. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Cased, £70, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-19-969710-6. (2016) (0)
The Greek Translations of Francis Hickes (1565/6–1631) (2016) (0)
Plotinus (2009) (0)
In Brief: Classics (1999) (0)
HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive): an interdisciplinary project (2011) (0)
Plutarch Life of Kimon. Trans, and comm. A. Blamire. (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 56; classical handbook, 2.) London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1989. Pp. vii + 224. £ 10.00. (1991) (0)
Vibius Pansa Caetronianus, Gaius, Roman general and politician (2016) (0)
Educating Croesus: Talking and Learning in Herodotus' Lydian {<italic>Logos</italic> (2006) (0)
Introduction: A Missing Person? (2019) (0)
Plutarch on Sparta: cultural identities and political models in the Plutarchan macrotext (2014) (0)
Plutarch on the outbreak of the Roman Civil War (2004) (0)
SUETONIUS (2015) (0)
Hegesander, of Delphi, Greek writer, 2nd cent. BCE (2016) (0)
Polemon (1) I, king of Pontus (2016) (0)
Sosius, Gaius, Roman politician and general (2016) (0)
Bellum Civile (2020) (0)
Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea (2013) (0)
HESTIA: using digital resources to investigate the world of an ancient historian (2011) (0)
Syme, Ronald (1903–1989) (2016) (0)
Cocceius Nerva, Lucius, Roman politician (2016) (0)
Notes on Plutarch's Caesar (1984) (0)
Speech and action in the Antiquitates Romanae of Dionysius of Halicarnassus: the question of historical change (2008) (0)
Seeing a Roman tragedy through Greek eyes: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2009) (0)
Ex(s)uperantius, Iulius (2016) (0)
Antonius, Marcus (2), Roman consul and triumvir, d. 31 BCE (2015) (0)
Athenaeus and the Historians (2009) (0)
Aelius Tubero, Quintus (2015) (0)
(A.) Wardman Plutarch's Lives. London: Paul Elek Ltd. 1974. Pp. xiii + 274. £4·20. (1976) (0)
Alexander (11) 'Polyhistor', Greek polymath and ethnographer (2015) (0)
Sulpicius Rufus, Servius, Roman lawyer (2016) (0)
Titius, Marcus, Roman politician and general (2016) (0)
Fifth-Century Preliminaries (2020) (0)
A broad-minded bully (2006) (0)
Space travel and time travel in Plutarch (2017) (0)
A View from the Boundary (2015) (0)
Ritual gone wrong in Demetrius–Antony: Or, ‘you’re not a deity, you’re a very naughty boy’ (2018) (0)
Alcaeus (3), of Messene, fl. 200 BCE (2015) (0)
The rise of Rome : twelve lives (2013) (0)
Posidippus (2), of Pella, epigrammatist (2016) (0)
Salvidienus Rufus, Quintus Salvius, Roman commander (2016) (0)
Plutarch. Life of Alexander. Trans. K. J. Maidment. Auckland, N.Z.: The University Press. 1971. Pp.80. 85 cents N.Z. (1973) (0)
Causes in competition: Herodotus and Hippocratics (2018) (0)
Sextius, Titus, Roman military man (2016) (0)
Ptolemy (2), king of Mauretania, 23–40 CE (2016) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Orodes, king of Parthia, c. 58/57–37 BCE (2016) (0)
Aristophanes (1), Athenian poet of Old Comedy, 2nd half of 5th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
A. M. Gowing, The Triumviral Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio (Michigan monographs in classical antiquity). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 374, 9 illus., 3 maps. ISBN 0-472-10294-X. US $42.50. (1994) (0)
Plutarch. Vitae parallelae. Ed. C. Lindskog and K. Ziegler. iii, 2. 2nd Ed. by K. Ziegler. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. 1973. Pp. xxvi + 405. DM 69. (1975) (0)
Cornelius Sisenna, Lucius, Roman historian (2016) (0)
Preparing for Posterity: Dionysius and Polybius (2016) (0)
Lysistrata and others: constructing gender (2002) (0)
What is Biography? (2001) (0)
A problem child (2019) (0)
J. Grethlein and C.B. Krebs Eds Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 257. £60. 9781107007406. (2014) (0)
Gomme’s Thucydides and the Idea of the Historical Commentary (2021) (0)
The structure of Plutarch's Caesar (1996) (0)
Chaeremon (2), of Alexandria (1), Greek author, 1st cent. CE (2016) (0)
Sallust, Roman historian, c. 86–35 BCE (2016) (0)
R. A. Gurval, Actium and Augustus: the Politics and Emotions of Civil War . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 337, 10 pls, illus. ISBN 0-472-10590-6. US$45.50. (1997) (0)
Fannius, Gaius, Roman politician (2016) (0)
The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Extracting , investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus : the case of the Black Sea Conference Item (2016) (0)
Networks, digital tools and representations of geographic space: towards a geospacial analysis of Herodotus's Histories (2013) (0)
Sempronius Asellio, Roman historian and military tribune (2016) (0)
Antipater (3), of Sidon, Greek poet of epigrams, 2nd cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Cassius Hemina, Lucius, Roman historian and antiquarian (2016) (0)
Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Marcus (2016) (0)
Ventidius, Publius, Roman military man (2016) (0)

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Plutarch and history : eighteen studies