Roy Gibson (classicist)

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]

Roy Gibson
Board member ofThe Journal of Roman Studies
Academic background
EducationSidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineLatin Literature
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

References
  1. "CA Governance". classicalassociation.org. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  2. "Editorial board". cambridge.org. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  3. "Prof Roy Gibson". dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  4. Reviews of The Classical Commentary: JSTOR 4135029; JSTOR 25067767
  5. Reviews of Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book 3: JSTOR 30222111; JSTOR 25067765; JSTOR 4132997; JSTOR 4352941
  6. Reviews of The Art of Love: JSTOR 20482378; JSTOR 20430707; JSTOR 23041709; JSTOR 43939244
  7. Reviews of Excess and Restraint: JSTOR 25651746; JSTOR 25472033; JSTOR 10.5184/00098353.105.1.76; doi:10.1017/S0075435800002100
  8. Reviews of Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts: JSTOR 43286841; JSTOR antiqclassi.81.267
  9. Reviews of Reading The Letters of Pliny the Younger: JSTOR 24774768; doi:10.1163/1568525X-12341737; doi:10.1017/S007543581400080X; doi:10.1017/S0009840X1300067X
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