Howard W. Clarke (June 12, 1929 – January 24, 2015) was an American classicist. He was a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).Faculty. UCSB Department of Classics, 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
Education and career Clarke graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1950. He then earned his Master of Arts in 1951 and his Ph.D. in classics in 1960 from Harvard University. 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.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 (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).
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