Ward W Briggs

Biographic Data

ID1079807
NAMEWard W Briggs
GIVEN NAMESWard W
FAMILY NAMEBriggs
SIGNATUREBRIGGS W W
AFFILIATIONSColumbia College - South Carolina
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Rollin, Charles (1661–1741)

    Open AccessWard Briggs, Ward W BriggsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2017

    Charles Rollin was one of the greatest eighteenth‐century historians of the ancient world whose Jansenist views put him at odds with the administrations of several French universities that employed him. His compendious histories won the devoted praise of Voltaire and Rousseau, but in translation his works influenced intellectuals across Europe and particularly the Founding Fathers of the United States.

  • What the Harvard School Has Taught Me

    Ward W BriggsARTICLEThe Classical World2017

    What the Harvard School Has Taught Me Ward W. Briggs My chief contact with the Harvard School came during two periods of my career: the preparation of my dissertation and my editorship of Vergilius. My Doktorvater was Brooks Otis, the last Titan before the Olympian takeover of Virgilian studies. His gifts as a close and sensitive reader of texts demonstrated (starting from Richard Heinze) Virgil's unique "subjective style," and showed the consist…

  • C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile ed. by A. T. Reyes (review)

    Ward Briggs, Ward W BriggsARTICLEThe Classical World2014

    Reviewed by: C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile ed. by A. T. Reyes Ward Briggs A. T. Reyes (ed.). C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. $27.50. Pp. xxiv, 208. ISBN 978-0-300-16717-7. This fragmentary translation of the Aeneid (1.1–756; 2.1–500, 6.264–519) is an artifact of a parlor performance meant primarily for a closed group, perhaps no larger than Lewis’s Oxford circle, the “Inklings…

  • Mommsen, Theodor (1817–1903)

    Open AccessWard Briggs, Ward W BriggsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Theodor Mommsen is regarded as the greatest Roman historian after Niebuhr, and arguably one of the most prominent and powerful classics scholars of the nineteenth century.

  • Momigliano, Arnaldo 1908–1987

    Open AccessWard Briggs, Ward W BriggsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Arnaldo Momigliano devoted his career to revealing the entwined cultural heritage of Greeks, Romans, Christians, and Jews throughout the ancient world and to understanding not only the intellectual forces at work on the ancient figures he studied, like Philip II of Macedon and the emperor Claudius, but also on great scholars in the field of ancient history.

  • Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future – Edited by Christopher Stray

    Open AccessWard Briggs, Ward W BriggsARTICLEReligious Studies Review2011

  • A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Virgil in the Princeton University Library (review)

    Ward Briggs, Ward W BriggsARTICLEThe Classical World2011

    Reviewed by: A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Virgil in the Princeton University Library Ward Briggs Craig Kallendorf. A Catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Collection of Virgil in the Princeton University Library. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Pp ix, 529. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-58456-2634. Many blessings enriched the life of Junius Spencer Morgan (1867–1932): he had the good fortune to share in the great fortune o…

  • The Golden Age of Classics in America: Greece, Rome and the Antebellum United States – By Carl J. Richard

    Open AccessWard Briggs, Ward W BriggsARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010

  • Second-Hand Superiority: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the English

    Ward W BriggsARTICLEPolis The Journal for Ancient…2002

    The attitude of the American classical scholar Basil L. Gildersleeve toward the English may be taken as typical of Americans over the period of his long life. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, a city with deep economic and cultural ties to England, he found his youthful admiration for British scholarship offset by the sufferings of his ancestors in the Revolution and the War of 1812. At mid-century the allegiance of many American intellectu…

  • Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in Intertextuality

    Ward Briggs, Ward W Briggs et al.ARTICLEPhoenix2002

    There has long been vital interest in the ways that texts affect each other--through translation, imitation, parody, and other forms of emulation and subversion. Throughout the last two millennia, the Virgilian text has created its own intertextual heritage, persisting in the works of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Heaney. Richard F. Thomas's new volume demonstrates that such control and manipulation of the inherited tradition is to be found with grea…

  • Virgil's Experience. Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places

    Ward Briggs, Ward W Briggs et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2001Cited by: 2

  • Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War

    Michael B Chesson, Ward W BriggsARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly1999

  • "Virgil's "Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names

    Ward Briggs, Ward W Briggs et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1999

  • Abby Leach (1855-1918)

    Ward Briggs, Ward W BriggsARTICLEThe Classical World1996

  • Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists

    Ward W BriggsBOOKBiographical Dictionary of North…1994Cited by: 17

    While European scholarship in the Classics has a long and established tradition, very little has been written on the history of classical scholarship in North America. By providing profiles of some 600 North American Classicists, this reference book presents a starting point for defining the history of Classical scholarship in Canada and the United States. Included are those Classicists who made significant contributions to the field and those wh…

  • Classics at Queen's: A Brief History

    Ward Briggs, Ward W Briggs et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1994

  • Greek and Roman Sport: A Dictionary of Athletes and Events from the Eighth Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D

    Ward W Briggs, David MatzARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia

    Michael Di Maio, Jr Michael Di Maio et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991Cited by: 3

  • The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

    Taylor Sanders, Ward W BriggsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1989

  • The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

    Richard C Lounsbury, Ward W BriggsARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. Ed. by Ward W. Briggs, Jr. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xxxi + 407 pp. $49.50.) Get access Richard C. Lounsbury Richard C. Lounsbury Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 940–941, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901613 Published: 01 December 1988

  • The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve

    Charles C Bishop, Ward W Briggs et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988

  • Lively Lustre, Kindly Dew: ” William Heberden's “Of Perspiration”

    Ward W Briggs, BERNADINE Z PAULSHOCKARTICLEJournal of the History of…1986

    WARD W. BRIGGS, JR., BERNADINE Z. PAULSHOCK; “Lively Lustre, Kindly Dew:” William Heberden's “Of Perspiration”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Alli

  • Narrative and simile from the Georgics in the Aeneid

    Ward Briggs, Ward W BriggsBOOKNarrative and simile from the…1980

  • Augustan Athletics and the Games of Aeneid V

    Ward W BriggsCHAPTERStadion1975