• Date of Birth: January 28, 1942
  • Born City: Helensburgh
  • Born State/Country: Scotland
  • Parents: Angus, a building contractor, & Elizabeth T.
  • Date of Death: January 14, 2025
  • Death City: Paisley
  • Death State/Country: Scotland
  • Education:

    B.A. (Honors), St. Andrews; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1972.

  • Dissertation:

    “Walahfrid Strabo’s ‘Visio Wettini’: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary” (Berkeley, 1972).

  • Professional Experience:

    Lectr. McGill; asst. prof. to prof. U. of California, Davis, 1970-2010; Schliemann medal 2017.

  • Publications:

    “The Addressee and Interpretation of Walahfrid's 'Metrum Saphicum',” M&H N.S. 2 (1971) 69-82; “Letter of Harpalus to Heras,” The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 41 (London, 1972) 81-2; “Schliemann's Mendacity: Fire and Fever in California,”CJ 74 (1979) 348-55; “Horace, Odes 1.14: Genealogy, Courtesans and Cyclades,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, 1, Collection Latomus 164 (Brussels 1979) 266-70; “Ring-Composition in Catullus 64,” CJ 76 (1981) 232-41; “Catullus 63: Rings Around the Sun,” CP 76 (1981) 211-14; “Horace C. 1.3:  A Political Ode?” CJ 78 (1982) 131-7; “Schliemann's American Citizenship and Divorce,” CJ 77 (1982) 336-42; “Schliemann's 'Discovery' of Priam's Treasure',”Antiquity 57 (1983) 181-6; “Schliemann's Discovery of 'Priam's Treasure': A Re-Examination of the Evidence." JHS 104 (1984) 95-115; “Further Evidence of Fraudulent Reporting in Schliemann's Archaeological Works,” Boreas 7 (1984) 295-316; “Schliemann's Dream of Troy: the Making of a Legend,” CJ 81 (1985) 13-24; “‘Priam's Treasure’: Schliemann's Plan to Make Duplicates for Illicit Purposes” in Myth, Scandal, and History (above) 110-121; “The Mycenaean Diary,” in Myth, Scandal, and History (above) 122-260; “Schliemann's Acquisition of the Helios Metope and his Psychopathic Tendencies,” in Myth, Scandal, and History (above) 8-80; “Schliemann's Mendacity: A Question of Methodology,” Anatolian Studies 36 (1986) 91-8; “Parce Continuis:  A New Text and Interpretative Notes,” MLatJB 21 (1986) 114-24; “Ring Composition in Catullus 63, 64 and 68b,” CW 81 (1988) 365-9; “Hisarlik, 31 May, 1873, and the Discovery of 'Priam' s Treasure’.”  Boreas 11 (1988) 227-34; “How Schliemann Smuggled ‘Priam's Treasure’ from the Troad to Athens,” Hesperia 57 1988) 273-7; “Notes on Dum Diane vitrea (CB 62) and A globo veteri (CB 67)" MLatJB 23 (1988) 143-51; “Bloedow on Schliemann's Accusers,” Tyche 3 (1988) 235-9; “The Archaeological Career of Sophia Schliemann,” Antichthon 23 (1989) 99-107; “Gold Armor for Bronze and Homer's Use of Compensatory TIMH,” CP 84 (1989) 301-5; “Heinrich Schliemann,” in Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Encyclopedia, ed. Ward W. Briggs and William M. Calder III (New York 1990) 424-46; “The Schliemann Controversy,” Ancient History 20 (1990) 81-7; “Schliemann's Academic Employees,“ in Heinrich Schliemann nach hundert Jahren, ed. William M. Calder III and Justin Cobet (Frankfurt 1990) 237-55; “Schliemanns Reise ins Yosemite-Tal (Kalifornien) im Jahre 1865,“ Das Altertum 36 (1990) 209-16; trans. as “Schliemann's Visit to Yosemite,” in Excavating Schliemann (above) 51-9; “A Note on the Translation of Cicero, Phil.1.1,” CJ 85 (1990) 119-20; “Unfair to Hector?, CP 85 (1990) 299-303, repr. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Detroit: Gale, 2003) 61:192-5; “Schliemann on Dickens,“ CW 85 (1991) 105-6; “Schliemann's Trips 1841-1867 and a Detailed Record of his Movements 1868-1890,” Boreas 14/15 (1991-92) 207-14; “ ‘Priam's Treasure‘: Further Problems,” in Heinrich Schliemann--Grundlagen und Ergebnisse moderner Archäologie 100 Jahre nach Schliemanns Tod, ed. J. Herrmann (Berlin 1992) 183-9; “The Text of Catullus 64.24,” CP 87 (1992) 326-8; “Ovid, Tristia 2.8, 296, and 507: Happier Solutions,” Hermes 120 (1992) 504-7; “Between Scylla and Charybdis at Aeneid 3.684-86: A Smoother Passage,” AJP 114 (1993) 407-11; “Horace, Odes 1.30: Glycera's Problem,” CP 88 (1993) 332; “Parody and Original: The Structure and Interpretation of CB 197 and CB 62,” M&H 20 (1993) 137-46; “Schliemann's Excavations at Mycenae through the Eyes of Stamatakis,” in Excavating Schliemann (above) 205-13; “Bibliography (of books and articles on Schliemann)” in Excavating Schliemann (above) 261-72; “Propertius 1.21: The Sister, the Bones, and the Wayfarer,” AJP 115 (1994) 89-96; Twelve articles contributed to An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology, ed. Nancy Thomson de Grummond (New York: Greenwood Press. 1996): “J. H. Friedrich Adler” (p. 7), “Frank Calvert” (p. 220), “Luigi Palma di Cesnola” (pp. 267-8), “Wilhelm Dörpfeld” (p. 372), “Percy Gardner” (pp. 478-9), “Hildebert of Lavardin” (p. 590); “Ithaka” (pp. 613-14); “François Lenormant” (p. 672); “Mycenae” (pp. 785-6); “Orchomenos” (p. 828); “Tiryns” (pp. 1105-6); “Sir Charles Waldstein” (p. 118); “Heinrich Schliemann,” in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (New York & Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1996) 628; “Heinrich Schliemann--Was sollen wir glauben?,” Mitteilungen aus dem Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen 5 (1997) 85-97; “J.G. von Hahn's Report of his Excavations at Balli Dag in 1864: The Finlay Translation,” Annual of the British School at Athens 92 (1997) 169-89; “Callimachus' Singing Sea (Hymn 2.106),” CP 93 (1998) 215-22; “Wheeler, Arthur Leslie” in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C.  Carnes. (New York, 1999) 23:127-8; “Priam’s Treasure: The 4,000-Year-Old Hoard of Trojan Gold.” Archaeology Odyssey 2,3 (July/August 1999) 14-27 & 59; “Heinrich Schliemann: Improbable Archaeologist,” (with Igor Bogdanov) Archaeology Odyssey. 2.3 (July/August 1999) 30-39 (Sole author pp. 30-3, 37-9); “Insistent Questions.” Archaeology 52.4 (July/August 1999) 51-59 (contribution 55-6); “‘Priam's Treasure’: Clearly a Composite,” Anatolian Studies 50 (2000) 17-36; “Boxers and Generals at Mount Eryx,” AJP 122 (2001) 405-13; “Mal d'Amour, Joie d'Amour: A New Edition and Interpretation of CB 60/60a,” MLatJB 36 (2001) 95-112; “Reaching the Right Harbor: Negotiating the Double Entendres of CB 128,” Filologia Mediolatina 8 (2001) 173-78; “Letters from Troy: A Surgeon's Correspondence Offers New Insights into the Character of Heinrich Schliemann,” with Paul C. Appleton, Archaeology 55.1 (Jan/ Feb 2002) 54-8; “Carmina Burana 59: A Plea for Chastity--or Free Love?” MLatJB 38 (2003) 189-98; “Philip the Chancellor and F10: Expanding the Canon,” Filologia Mediolatina 10 (2003) 219-48; “Heinrich Schliemann” in Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia (Microsoft 2004); “Frank Calvert,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford U. Press. 2004) 9:582; Walter of Châtillon’s In Domino confido (W.3): Where and When Was It First Performed?” in Poesía Latina Medieval (Siglos V-XV) Actas del IV Congreso del ‘Internationales Mittellateinerkomitee,’ Santiago de  Compostela, 12-15 septiembre de 2002, ed. Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz and José M. Diaz de Bustamente  (Florence 2005) 851-62; “The Origin of the Ripoll Love Poems,” in Actas do IV Congresso Internacional de Latim Medieval Hispanico, Lisboa, 12-15 de Outubro de 2005 (Lisbon, 2006) 905-12; “A Cluster of Poems by Philip the Chancellor in Carmina Burana 21-36,”  SMed, ser3, .47 (2006) 267-85; ”Philip the Chancellor and the Heresy Inquisition in Northern France in 1235-1236,” Viator 17 (2006) 241-54; “More Poems by Philip the Chancellor,” Journal of Medieval Latin 16 (2006) 164-81; “Biblical Exegesis and Medieval Lyric: Problems of Interpretation in Nutante mundi cardine, Relegentur ab area and Vite perdite,” Journal of Medieval Latin,17 (2007) 329-41; “Heinrich Schliemann” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. William A. Darity, Jr., 2nd ed. (Detroit, 2008) 7: 346-7; “Schliemann’s Last Treasure,” in In Pursuit of Wissenschaft: Festschrift für William M. Calder III zum 75. Geburtstag (Hildesheim 2008) 467-7; “Schliemann in Kalifornien,” Heinrich-Schliemann-Gesellschaft Ankershagen—Informationsblatt, No.19 (Feb. 2008) 35-46; “Erfindung in Schliemanns Tagebüchern” Mitteilungen des Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen, 9 (2011) 99-112; “Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann,” in The Great Archaeologists, ed. Brian Fagan (London, 2014) 72-7; “Philip the Chancellor and the Third Crusade,” in Auctor et Auctoritas: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Medieval Latin Committee, Benevento, 2010, ed. Edoardo D’Angelis and Jan Ziolkowski (Florence 2014) 1135-45; “Rough Sex and Rape in the Carmina Burana,” in Ecclesia et Violentia: Violence against the Church and Violence within the Church in the Middle Ages, ed. Radoslaw Kotecki and Jacek Maciejewski (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2014) 333-43; “Schliemanns Nilreise im Winter 1886-87,” Mitteilungen aus dem Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen, Heft 10/11 (2016) 211-21; “Carefree in Corfu? Horace, Epistles 1.2.31,” CQ 67 (2017) 314-17; “The Enigmatic Vide, qui fastu rumperis and the Career of Philip the Chancellor,” SMed 58 (2017) 363-78; “Schliemann’s American Training?” in Professing Classics: Between Germanosphere and Anglosphere (mid-19th-21st C.), ed. Ward Briggs and Danuta Shanzer (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2024) 17-31.

  • Author: Ward Briggs