Ward W. Briggs
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American classical philologist
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#4292
World Rank
#6872
Historical Rank
#1962
USA Rank
Classical Studies
#61
World Rank
#116
Historical Rank
#23
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Ward W. Briggs's Degrees
- Bachelors Classical Languages University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Why Is Ward W. Briggs Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ward W. Briggs Jr. is an American classicist and historian of classical studies. He taught until 2011 as the Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South Carolina.
Ward W. Briggs's Published Works
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Published Works
- A companion to the classical tradition (2007) (77)
- Narrative and Simile from the Georgics in the Aeneid (1980) (68)
- Classical scholarship : a biographical encyclopedia (1991) (23)
- Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (1994) (14)
- Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (1994) (14)
- Petronius and Virgil in The Great Gatsby (1999) (10)
- Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War (1999) (5)
- Virgil and the Hellenistic Epic (1981) (5)
- The letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1987) (5)
- Virgil between wars (1999) (3)
- Peace and Power in The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009) (2)
- A Bibliography of Virgil's 'Eclogues' (1980) (2)
- Ancient Roman writers (1999) (1)
- Classics at Queen's: A brief history (1992) (1)
- The Golden Age of Classics in America: Greece, Rome and the Antebellum United States – By Carl J. Richard (2010) (1)
- Ancient Greek authors (1997) (1)
- Meyer Reinhold in scoundrel time (2006) (1)
- The Roosevelt lectures of Paul Shorey (1995) (1)
- Virgil and the land (2000) (1)
- Concordantia in Varronis libros, De re rustica (1983) (1)
- Abby Leach (1855-1918) (1996) (1)
- William Osier and Basil Gildersleeve on Plato's Eryximachus (2003) (1)
- The Ur-Gatsby (2000) (1)
- The Complete Poems of James Dickey (2013) (0)
- McCarthyism, Small-College-Style: Brooks Otis and the Millet Case (2000) (0)
- African American Writers and Classical Tradition by William W. Cook and James Tatum (review) (2013) (0)
- Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future – Edited by Christopher Stray (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Arthur J. Pomeroy, Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano: The Ancient World in Film and Television (London: Duckworth. 2008), VIII + 152. (2010) (0)
- A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Virgil in the Princeton University Library (review) (2011) (0)
- Rachel Baron interviewing Ward Briggs on April 30, 2009 (2009) (0)
- D. J. Butterfield and C. A. Stray (eds.), A. E. Housman Classical Scholar (review) (2021) (0)
- Anton Bierl, William M. Calder III, Robert L. Fowler (edd.): The Prussian and the Poet: The Letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Gilbert Murray (1894–1930). Pp. xv + 144. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 1991. DM 49.80. (1993) (0)
- Similes in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid (1980) (0)
- Narrative in the Georgics Used for Similes in the Aeneid (1980) (0)
- Basil L. Gildersleeve: The Formative Influence (1995) (0)
- Rome and America (2010) (0)
- The selected classical papers of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1992) (0)
- The Founding of the American Philological Association (2021) (0)
- Dickey, James (1923–1997) (2007) (0)
- "Lively lustre, kindly dew:" William Heberden's "Of Perspiration". (1986) (0)
- Latin in the Movies and Rome (2009) (0)
- What the Harvard School Has Taught Me (2017) (0)
- ‘Second-Hand Superiority’: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the English (2002) (0)
- Book reviews (1999) (0)
- Gildersleeve and M. Carey Thomas (2000) (0)
- Correspondence (1982) (0)
- C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile ed. by A. T. Reyes (review) (2014) (0)
- James Dickey and Life (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Opening the Gates: The American Philological Association Becomes the Society for Classical Studies 1969–2018 (2019) (0)
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