Professor and Director of Classics Latin Literature of the Golden Age, The Classical Tradition, History of Classical Scholarship Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1974 Email: wardbriggs@sc.edu Phone: (803) 777-2765 Fax: (803) 777-0454 Humanities 807

Ward Briggs is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities. He teaches Latin Literature of the Golden Age and the Classical Tradition to undergraduates. His research interests are Virgil and the history of American classical scholarship. He edited the journal Vergilius for ten years and is the author or editor of 10 books and numerous articles and reviews. He was recently at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ, working on a biography of the American classicist Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve.