Ward W. Briggs Jr. (born November 26, 1945, in

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) is an American classicist and historian of classical studies. He taught until 2011 as ''Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics'' and ''Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities'' at the University of South Carolina.

Education and career

Briggs studied at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

, where he wrote his MA thesis on Horace and his PhD thesis, under the supervision of

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, on

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. His research interests include Roman poetry and the history of classical studies in North America. He is the editor, co-editor, and author of several standard works in his field. He published, among other items, a biography of

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, the founder of modern American study of classical antiquity.

Selected works

* ''Aspects of Horace, Odes 3.19''. Chapel Hill 1969 * ''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) ;As editor * ''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 Lanneau Gildersleeve''. Baltimore 1987. * with William M. Calder III: ''Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia''. New York/London 1990. * ''The Selected Classical Papers of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve''. Atlanta 1992 * ''Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists''. Westport (Connecticut)/London 1994. * with

E. Christian Kopff E. Christian Kopff (born 22 November 1946, Brooklyn, New York) is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 1973. He is a Fellow of the American A ...

: ''The Roosevelt lectures of Paul Shorey (1913–1914)''. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York 1995. * ''Soldier and scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War''. Charlottesville 1998

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Ward W. Briggs at the University of South Carolina
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