Clifford Herschel Moore
American classical philologist and religious studies scholar
Intro | American classical philologist and religious studies scholar | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Philologist Religious scholar | |
Work field | Religion Social science | |
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Birth | 11 March 1866, Massachusetts | |
Death | 31 August 1931Cambridge (aged 65 years) |
Clifford Herschel Moore (1866–1931) was an American Latin scholar.
Moore was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard (A.B., 1889) and in Europe at Munich (Ph.D., 1897). He taught classics in California (1889–92) and Massachusetts, at Phillips Academy in Andover (1892–94).
Moore then taught Latin at the University of Chicago (1894–98), and at Harvard from 1898 onward. He was a professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, Italy.
Moore edited Frederic de Forest Allen's 1899 edition of Euripides' Medea and his 1902 edition Horace's Odes and Epodes (1902), and wrote the textbooks A First Latin Book (1903) and The Elements of Latin (1906).