Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Christopher Brendan Reginald Pelling is the Regius Professor of Greek, Faculty of Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. He is President of the Hellenic Society and is a representative for the Society at the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council.His research interests range over Greek and Latin historiography and biography, and also over other areas of Greek literature, especially tragedy. Biography is in fashion: one has only to scan the shelves in W. H. Smith’s to see that.And we all know what biographies and autobiographies are, don’t we? They start at thebeginning: so many autobiographies open with those depressing words ‘I was born...’. — Christopher Pelling, inaugural lecture, 20 May 2004. }
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- Christopher_Pelling abstract "Christopher Brendan Reginald Pelling is the Regius Professor of Greek, Faculty of Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. He is President of the Hellenic Society and is a representative for the Society at the Institute of Classical Studies Advisory Council.His research interests range over Greek and Latin historiography and biography, and also over other areas of Greek literature, especially tragedy. Biography is in fashion: one has only to scan the shelves in W. H. Smith’s to see that.And we all know what biographies and autobiographies are, don’t we? They start at thebeginning: so many autobiographies open with those depressing words ‘I was born...’. — Christopher Pelling, inaugural lecture, 20 May 2004".