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 and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Roman Studies.

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.

Selected publications

• The Classical Commentary: Histories, Practices, Theory, edited with C. S. Kraus, Brill, 2002
• Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book 3, Cambridge University Press, 2003
• 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
• Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace, and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Institute of Classical Studies, 2007
• Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts, edited with R. Morello, Brill, 2011
• Reading The Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction, with Ruth Morello, Cambridge University Press, 2012