Ward W. Briggs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ward W. Briggs

American classical philologist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1945

Place of Birth: Riverside, California, United States

Profession: historian, university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ward W.
Briggs (born November 26, 1945, in Riverside, California) 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. Briggs studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his M.A.
thesis on Horace and his Ph.D.
thesis, under the supervision of Brooks Otis, on Virgil. 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 Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, the founder of modern American study of classical antiquity.