Howard Clarke

Howard W. Clarke was an American classicist. He was a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Education and career

Clarke graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and Harvard University. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, a sergeant in the Army Security Agency in Berlin, Instructor in Classics, Boston University ; Assistant to Full Professor of Classics at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, ; and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature UCSB.
From 1993 he worked as a destination lecturer on cruise ships in the Mediterranean.
He died on 24 January 2015 following a brief illness.