Howard Clarke

Howard Clarke
Born	June 12, 1929
Died	January 24, 2015(2015-01-24) (aged 85)
Nationality	American
Education	College of the Holy Cross (AB) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Occupation	Professor

Howard W. Clarke (June 12, 1929 – January 24, 2015) was an American classicist. He was latterly Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Education and career

Clarke graduated from the College of the Holy Cross (A.B., 1950) and Harvard University (MA, 1951; PhD, 1960). He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard (1950–51), a sergeant in the Army Security Agency in Berlin (1953–56), Instructor in Classics, Boston University (1956–1958, 1959–1960); Assistant to Full Professor of Classics at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, (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.

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 (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).