Ward W. Briggs

Ward W. Briggs (* November 26, 1945 in Riverside, California) is an American classical scholar. He taught until 2011 as Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South Carolina.

Briggs studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Brooks Otis, in the 1969 he wrote his master's thesis on Horace and 1974 his doctoral thesis on Virgil.

Briggs mainly deals with the Roman poet Virgil and the history of classical antiquity science in the United States. He is the editor, co-editor and author of several standard works. His special interest is Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, the founder of modern archeology in the United States.

Writings (selection )

• Repetitions from Virgil's Georgics in the Aeneid. Chapel Hill 1974
• Narrative and Simile from the Georgics in the Aeneid. Leiden 1980 ( Mnemosyne Supplements 58)
• Soldier and scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War. Charlottesville 1998

• Concordantia in Varronis Libros de re rustica. Hildesheim 1983
• With Herbert W. Benario: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve: An American Classicist. Baltimore 1986
• With Herbert W. Benario: The Letters of Basil Gildersleeve Lanneau. Baltimore 1987. ISBN 978-0801828768
• With William M. Calder III: Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia. New York / London 1990. ISBN 978-0824084486
• The Selected Classical Papers of Basil Gildersleeve Lanneau. Atlanta 1992
• Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport ( Connecticut ) / London 1994. ISBN 0-313-24560-6
• With E. Christian Kopff: The Roosevelt lectures of Paul Shorey ( 1913-1914 ). Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1995. ISBN 3-487-09982-9