Clyde Pharr
Clyde Pharr (1883-1972) taught classics at Ohio Wesleyan University (1912-1917), Southwestern Presbyterian University (1918-1924), and Vanderbilt (1924-1950). In 1950, Pharr became a visiting professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he became a research professor in 1952 and an emeritus research professor in 1966. Pharr received a BS in 1903 and BA in 1905 from East Texas State Teachers College, a BA from Yale University in 1906, and a PhD in classics in 1910 from Yale University. He also studied at the University of Berlin; was awarded an Archeological Institute of America fellowship to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens; attended the Summer School at the University of Besancon, France; and spent a year as an American Field Service Fellow at the University of Paris. His research was focused on Roman law. Pharr authored Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners (D. C. Heath and Co., 1920) and Vergil's Aeneid: Books I-VI (D. C. Heath and Co., 1964; reprinted by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1998), and authored or coauthored numerous works on Roman law.
Books by Clyde Pharr
Vergil's Aeneid: Books I-VI With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary, and Grammatical Appendix
- 4215
- 978-0-86516-421-5
Vergil's Aeneid: Books I-VI: With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary, and Grammatical Appendix
- 4339
- 978-0-86516-433-8
Heralded since its first publication in 1964, Clyde Pharr's Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI has shepherded countless high school and college students through the intricacies of this masterpiece of poetry. This text continues to serve courses studying the full text of the first six books of the Aeneid.
