Howard W. Clarke (June 12, 1929 – January 24, 2015) was an American

classicist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

. He was latterly Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

(UCSB).

Education and career

Clarke graduated from the

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by educators Benedict Joseph Fenwick and Thomas F. Mulledy in 1843 under the auspices of the Society of Jesus. ...

(A.B., 1950) and

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

(MA, 1951; PhD, 1960). He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard (1950–51), a sergeant in the

Army Security Agency The United States Army Security Agency (ASA) was the United States Army, United States Army's signals intelligence branch from 1945 to 1977. The Latin motto of the Army Security Agency was ''Semper Vigilis'' (Vigilant Always), which echoes the ...

in Berlin (1953–56), Instructor in Classics,

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(1956–1958, 1959–1960); Assistant to Full Professor of Classics at

Oakland University Oakland University (OU or Oakland) is a public university, public research university in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson and husband ...

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, (1960–1969); and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature UCSB (1969–1991). From 1993 he worked as a destination lecturer on cruise ships in the Mediterranean. He died on 24 January 2015 following a brief illness.Santa Barbara Independent
Obituary: Howard W. Clarke
published 3 February 2015, accessed 11 February 2021

Bibliography

Clarke was the author of ''The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel'' (Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2003). He has also authored ''The Art of the Odyssey'' (Prentice-Hall, 1967; rpt. Duckworth, 19940); ''Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey'' (University of Delaware Press, 1981), he has translated from the Polish ''The Return of Odysseus'' by

Stanisław Wyspiański Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (; 15 January 1869 – 28 November 1907) was a Polish playwright, painter, poet, and interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created symbolic national dramas accordant with the artisti ...

(Indiana University Press, 1966); and he has edited ''Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey'' (Prentice-Hall, 1983) and ''Vergil's Aeneid in the Dryden Translation'' (Penn State Press, 1987).

References

University of California, Santa Barbara faculty American classical scholars College of the Holy Cross alumni Harvard University alumni Classical scholars of Boston University Oakland University faculty 1929 births 2015 deaths {{US-academic-bio-stub