Jerry Clack, PhD

Biography:

Jerry Clack was a professor of classical languages at Duquesne University. He received a BA in classics from Princeton University and an MA and PhD in classics from the University of Pittsburgh. Clack also received an MA in Spanish language and literature from Duquesne University, where he taught from 1968 to 2011. He was a political activist and opera buff. He served as president, executive director, and fifteen years as editor of the Classical World. His impact on the organizaiton was profound and is evoked each year since 2010 with the Jerry Clack Lecture. Clack authored Meleager: The Poems (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1992), Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum: The Poems (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1999), An Anthology of Alexandrian Poetry (Classical World, 1982), and Antipater of Sidon and Dioscorides: The Poems (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001).