Roy Gibson (classicist)
British classical scholar
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Roy Gibson is a British Classicist and Professor at Durham University. Specialising in Latin Literature, he has worked extensively on the imperial period, with a focus on Ovid and Pliny the Younger. Gibson is also the joint-chair of the Classical Association[1] and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Roman Studies.[2]
Board memberofThe Journal of Roman Studies
EducationSidney Sussex College, Cambridge
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineLatin Literature
Roy Gibson | |
|---|---|
| Board member of | The Journal of Roman Studies |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Latin Literature |
| Institutions | University of Manchester Durham University |
Career
Gibson studied Classics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, leading to a BA (1987) and later a PhD (1993). He then went on to become a Research Fellow at the same college. From 1994, he worked at the University of Manchester and was promoted to a professorship in 2004. In 2018, Gibson was appointed Professor of Latin at Durham University.[3]
Selected publications
- The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory, edited with C. S. Kraus, Brill, 2002[4]
- Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book 3, Cambridge University Press, 2003[5]
- The Art of Love. Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" and "Remedia Amoris", edited with S. Green and A. Sharrock, Oxford University Press, 2006[6]
- Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace, and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Institute of Classical Studies, 2007[7]
- Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts, edited with R. Morello, Brill, 2011[8]
- Reading The Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction, with Ruth Morello, Cambridge University Press, 2012[9]