Howard Clarke

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).

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.