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 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]