Jerry Clack, PhD
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).
Books by Jerry Clack, PhD
Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum : The Poems
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- 978-0-86516-456-7
Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum set the course that later Greek epigrammatists would follow in their choice of subject matter. To Asclepiades, the epigram was a vehicle for personal feeling; in the hands of Leonidas the field was broader, dwelling often on the suffering that attends the poor and destitute.
Dioscorides and Antipater of Sidon : The Poems
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- 978-0-86516-511-3
Of all the Greek epigrammatists, Dioscorides and Antipater of Sidon perhaps most faithfully represent the Hellenistic society's reaction to a rapidly changing world — its introverted individualism. Their epigrams, distinguished by conciseness and range of themes, express the ephemeral nature of happiness and the inevitability of death. These epigrams — with their brief scope, intriguing subject matter, rhetorical flourishes, and intricately embroidered thematic variation — offer an enjoyable and attainable introduction to Hellenistic epigram.
Meleager: The Poems
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- 978-0-86516-254-9
As a poet and an editor of an anthology that transmitted the poetry of many Hellenistic epigrammists to modern times, Meleager is an important literary figure, and this text provides an excellent introduction to his poetry.
