Ward W. Briggs

Ward W. Briggs, Jr (born November 26, 1945 in Riverside , California ) is an American classical philologist who worked at the University of South Carolina from 1972 .

Briggs studied Classical Philology at Washington and Lee University ( B.A. 1967) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Brooks Otis , where he wrote his master's thesis on Horace in 1969 and his doctoral thesis on Virgil in 1974 . From 1972 he taught at the University of South Carolina, first as an instructor, from 1974 as Assistant Professor of Classics, from 1980 as Associate Professor, from 1986 as Professor of Classics. In 1996 he was appointed Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities . He has now retired .

Briggs is primarily concerned with the Roman poet Virgil and with the history of classical studies in the United States. He is editor, co-editor and author of several standard works. He is particularly interested in Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve , the founder of modern classical studies in the USA.

Briggs is a member of the American Philological Association , the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (President 1988/98), the Vergilian Society of America, and the Cambridge Philological Society.

Fonts (selection)

• Aspects of Horace, Odes 3.19. Chapel Hill NC 1969, (University of North Carolina, MA thesis).
• Repetitions from Virgil's Georgics in the Aeneid. Chapel Hill NC 1974, (University of North Carolina, dissertation).
• Narrative and Simile from the Georgics in the Aeneid (= Mnemosyne. Supplementum . 58). Brill, Leiden 1980, ISBN 90-04-06036-7 (Extended version of the dissertation, Chapel Hill NC, 1974).
• Soldier and scholar. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville VA et al. 1998, ISBN 0-8139-1743-3 .

Editing

• Concordantia in Varronis Libros de re rustica (= Alpha - Omega. Series A: Lexica, indices, concordances on classical philology. 65). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1983, ISBN 3-487-07301-3 .
• with Herbert W. Benario : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. An American Classicist (= American Journal of Philology . Monographs in Classical Philology. 1). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD et al. 1986, ISBN 0-8018-3117-2 .
• The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD et al. 1987, ISBN 0-8018-2876-7 .
• with William M. Calder III : Classical Scholarship. A Biographical Encyclopedia (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. 928). Garland, New York et al. 1990, ISBN 0-8240-8448-9 .
• The Selected Classical Papers of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (= American Classical Studies. 30). Scholars Press, Atlanta GA 1992, ISBN 1-555-40807-9 .
• Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 .
• with E. Christian Kopff : The Roosevelt lectures of Paul Shorey. (1913-1914) (= Olms studies. 41). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1995, ISBN 3-487-09982-9 .

Web links

• Entry on Ward W. Briggs in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Ward Briggs (English)
• Literature by Ward W. Briggs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ward W. Briggs at the University of South Carolina