Truesdell Sparhawk Brown (21 March 1906, Philadelphia – 13 January 1992, Houston) was a classical scholar, ancient historian, and co-founder of the journal California Studies in Classical Antiquity,[1] which became the journal Classical Antiquity.
[2] Brown attended Haverford College in 1922–1923 and then transferred to Harvard University, where he received his A.B in 1928 and his M.A.
Brown was an instructor and then assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin during the years 1940–1947 with a 2-year interruption in 1942–1944 when he was an instructor at the U. S. Naval Flight Preparatory School in Austin.
In 1947 he received a PhD from Columbia University under William Linn Westermann (1873–1954) with a thesis on Onesicritus.
Brown was a co-founder and, in the years 1967–1970, senior editor, along with W. Kendrick Pritchett,[3] of the journal California Studies in Classical Antiquity.