author
Clifford Herschel Moore
1866–1931
A Harvard classicist with a gift for making the ancient world feel alive, he wrote about Greek religion, Roman belief, and the long meeting of pagan and Christian thought. His books bring big spiritual and cultural questions into clear, readable focus.
2 Audiobooks
Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire
by Clifford Herschel Moore
The Religious Thought of the Greeks, from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity
by Clifford Herschel Moore
About the author
Born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1866, he studied at Harvard College and later earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. After teaching in California, at Phillips Academy, and then at Harvard, he became one of Harvard’s leading Latin scholars and eventually served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
His writing centered on classical religion and intellectual history. Works such as The Religious Thought of the Greeks and Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire show his interest in how ancient people understood the gods, the soul, and life after death.
Moore was also recognized beyond Harvard: he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work remained closely associated with Harvard publishing and scholarship. He died in 1931, leaving behind books that still appeal to readers interested in the moral and spiritual imagination of the ancient Mediterranean world.