Roy K Gibson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5625702 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roy K Gibson |
| NOMBRES | Roy K |
| APELLIDO | Gibson |
| FIRMA | GIBSON R K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8737-7481 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Intertextuality in Pliny, Epistles 6
How does Plinian intertextuality contribute to making a book unit distinctive from its fellows? Taking Book 6 as its subject, this chapter first looks at the depth of intertextual investment made by Pliny in the second Vesuvius letter (6.20), and looks at the challenge set by its apparent references to Petronius. It then looks at the persistent intertextual presence across Book 6 of Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Quintilian and Tacitus, and argues for…
Ovid’s Ars amatoria and the Epicurean Hedonic Calculus
This chapter studies Ovid’s use of the Epicurean hedonic calculus in the Amores epigram and the Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris . Epicurean ethics asserts that all actions must be based on a calculation of future pleasure versus future pain: the former should outweigh the latter in the long run and in a regular manner. A version of the hedonic calculus is particularly evident in Ars 2, where the male lover must learn to weigh both short-term plea…
Calpurnia of Comum and the Ghost of Umbria
The Epistulae of Pliny feature two wives: the young bride Calpurnia from Pliny's hometown of Comum in northern Italy and a deceased and unnamed earlier wife, the daughter of Pompeia Celerina, from the Umbro-Etruscan regions in central Italy, who is erased from most of the correspondence (she is unmentioned until the 9th book). Calpurnia effectively plays the role of Vergil's Lavinia to the Creusa of the deceased earlier wife: the new bride Calpur…
Man of High Empire
Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 CE)-senator and consul in the Rome of Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea-remains the best documented Roman individual, other than emperors, between Cicero and Augustine. Standard biographical approaches rarely suit him. But no Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His in…
Fifty Shades of Orange
A.S.F. Gow’s Machon, The Fragments was the first volume to appear in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series—popularly known as the ‘Cambridge orange’ series—in 1965, and was joined in the same year by Goodyear’s Aetna and the first two volumes of Shackleton Bailey’s Letters to Atticus. As the series approaches its half-century, it has produced its fifty-fourth volume in an edition of Stesichorus by M. Davies and P.J. Finglass. This…
Suetonius the Biographer
This chapter surveys Suetonius’ prose style, particularly his tendency to include the emperors’ own words in verbatim quotation. The metaphor of the ‘ventriloquist’ is apt for Suetonius, who frequently uses his biographical subject’s own language to display their character. This method is in direct contrast with the custom of Roman historians, especially Tacitus, who rewrites the original material in his sources, including speeches, to fit with t…
Suetonius and the uiri illustres of Pliny the Younger
This chapter compares the literary figures mentioned in Pliny the Younger’s Letters with the biographical subjects in the remains of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men. Places of overlap and divergence between the two contemporary authors are discussed, and conclusions are drawn about their different reasons for including the names that they do. Pliny’s senatorial outlook is held to explain his greater emphasis on writers of the later Julio-Claudian era,…
Suetonius the Biographer
The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost biographical writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars
Loves and elegy
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Letters into Autobiography
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an …
On the Nature of Ancient Letter Collections
There exists a strong link in modern thinking between letter collections and biographical or historical narration. Many ancient letter collections have been rearranged by modern editors along chronological lines, apparently with the aim of realizing the biographical and historiographical potential of these ancient collections. In their original format, however, non-fictional Greco-Roman letter collections were arranged predominantly by addressee …
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolograp…
Pliny the Elder
Chapter Eleven. Elder And Better
This chapter looks at the early reception of the Natural History in the Letters of Pliny's nephew and adopted son, and tackles two main issues. First, the author offers evidence against the assumption that the Younger Pliny cared little about or had scant knowledge of the actual contents of the Natural History and, more importantly, argues that the Younger expected his readers to be familiar with the text of that work. Secondly, the author looks …
Confirmed? Pliny, Epistles 1.1 and Sidonius Apollinaris
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The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger
The careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger go well together. Or at least so Pliny, who explicitly modelled himself on Cicero, would have hoped. Both were men of equestrian and non-Roman origins, noui homines who rose to the consulship (although Pliny notes at Epist . 4.8.5 that he attained both consulship and augurate while younger than Cicero), masters of eloquence in senate and law court, and recognized practitioners of a wide range of literar…
The Ars Amatoria
This chapter contains sections titled: Preliminaries The Ars and Roman Love Elegy The Women of the Ars and the Lex Iulia The Ars, Society, and Augustus The Ars and Erotodidaxis The Ars and Didactic Poetry The Ars and the de Officiis Coda Further Reading
The Art of Love
This collection of essays on Ovid's corpus of erotodidactic poetry from an international contingent of Ovidian scholars finds its origins in a major conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002. The contributors between them offer a series of perspectives on the issues that have dominated scholarship on the poems in recent decades: questions of genre, intertextuality, narratology, and reception; the socio-historical Augustan context fo…
Introduction
This introduction ponders the question of what defines a letter as used by some authors over other types of document. One way of deciding where the boundary between letters and other forms of text lies, and whether this is a worthwhile question to pose, is to consider borderline cases. Two such cases — the history of the classification as letters of various Greek poems, more recently thought not to qualify as letters, and Cicero's De Officiis — a…
The art of love
'The Art of Love' presents a collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love 'The Art of Love' and 'Cures for Love', offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems
Ovid
Pliny and the Art of (In)offensive Self-Praise
Pliny and the Art of (In)offensive Self-Praise Roy K. Gibson If there is an art of praising the self inoffensively, then Pliny may be felt not to have mastered it. Few of his letters lack an element of self-praise.1 Entirely typical of the forthright manner of this self-praise are the remarks made to Maximus in Epistles 9.23.1-2: frequenter agenti mihi evenit, ut centumviri cum diu se intra iudicum auctoritatem gravitatemque tenuissent, omnes rep…
'Cf. e.g.'
Preliminary Material
Pliny and the Art of (In)offensive Self-Praise
Pliny and the Art of (In)offensive Self-Praise Roy K. Gibson If there is an art of praising the self inoffensively, then Pliny may be felt not to have mastered it. Few of his letters lack an element of self-praise.1 Entirely typical of the forthright manner of this self-praise are the remarks made to Maximus in Epistles 9.23.1-2: frequenter agenti mihi evenit, ut centumviri cum diu se intra iudicum auctoritatem gravitatemque tenuissent, omnes rep…
The Classical Commentary
This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary practice and theory, with special emphasis on Galen, Tzetzes, and La Cerda; the relationship between the author of the primary text, the commentary w…
On the Nature of Ancient Letter Collections
There exists a strong link in modern thinking between letter collections and biographical or historical narration. Many ancient letter collections have been rearranged by modern editors along chronological lines, apparently with the aim of realizing the biographical and historiographical potential of these ancient collections. In their original format, however, non-fictional Greco-Roman letter collections were arranged predominantly by addressee …
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolograp…
How to win girlfriends and influence them
It is often said that amicitia , so prominent in the love poetry of Catullus, plays a negligible role in the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: the elegists avoid the vocabulary of amicitia and prefer to describe the relationships with their beloveds in terms of militia and seruitium amoris . In this paper, however, I shall show that this is mistaken. While the elegists do not use the vocabulary of amicitia systematically, they clearly do …
Confirmed? Pliny, Epistles 1.1 and Sidonius Apollinaris
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Aeneas as hospes in Vergil, Aeneid 1 and 4
In the opening section of Ovid's Ars Amatoria 3 the poet, in an attempt to gain favour with his female addressees, lists a number of legends where it is men who are the deceivers. In this list he includes Aeneas, et famam pietatis habet, tamen hospes et ensem I praebuit et causam mortis, Elissa, tuae (39–40). The terms in which Aeneas' guilt is cast are striking. Aeneas is criticized not for his lover's faithlessness, but for his shattering of th…
Man of High Empire
Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 CE)-senator and consul in the Rome of Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea-remains the best documented Roman individual, other than emperors, between Cicero and Augustine. Standard biographical approaches rarely suit him. But no Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His in…
Book Endings in Greek Poetry and Ars Amatoria 2 and 3
How to win girlfriends and influence them
It is often said that amicitia , so prominent in the love poetry of Catullus, plays a negligible role in the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: the elegists avoid the vocabulary of amicitia and prefer to describe the relationships with their beloveds in terms of militia and seruitium amoris . In this paper, however, I shall show that this is mistaken. While the elegists do not use the vocabulary of amicitia systematically, they clearly do …
Aeneas as hospes in Vergil, Aeneid 1 and 4
In the opening section of Ovid's Ars Amatoria 3 the poet, in an attempt to gain favour with his female addressees, lists a number of legends where it is men who are the deceivers. In this list he includes Aeneas, et famam pietatis habet, tamen hospes et ensem I praebuit et causam mortis, Elissa, tuae (39–40). The terms in which Aeneas' guilt is cast are striking. Aeneas is criticized not for his lover's faithlessness, but for his shattering of th…
Book Endings in Greek Poetry and Ars Amatoria 2 and 3
'Cf. e.g.'
Preliminary Material
Index
The Classical Commentary
This collection explores the issues raised by the writing and reading of commentaries on classical Greek and Latin texts. Written primarily by practising commentators, the papers examine philosophical, narratological, and historiographical commentaries; ancient, Byzantine, and Renaissance commentary practice and theory, with special emphasis on Galen, Tzetzes, and La Cerda; the relationship between the author of the primary text, the commentary w…
Pliny and the Art of (In)offensive Self-Praise
Pliny and the Art of (In)offensive Self-Praise Roy K. Gibson If there is an art of praising the self inoffensively, then Pliny may be felt not to have mastered it. Few of his letters lack an element of self-praise.1 Entirely typical of the forthright manner of this self-praise are the remarks made to Maximus in Epistles 9.23.1-2: frequenter agenti mihi evenit, ut centumviri cum diu se intra iudicum auctoritatem gravitatemque tenuissent, omnes rep…
Ovid
The art of love
'The Art of Love' presents a collection of essays on Ovid's cycle of sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love 'The Art of Love' and 'Cures for Love', offering a range of perspectives on the poetics, politics, and erotics of the poems
The Art of Love
This collection of essays on Ovid's corpus of erotodidactic poetry from an international contingent of Ovidian scholars finds its origins in a major conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002. The contributors between them offer a series of perspectives on the issues that have dominated scholarship on the poems in recent decades: questions of genre, intertextuality, narratology, and reception; the socio-historical Augustan context fo…
Introduction
This introduction ponders the question of what defines a letter as used by some authors over other types of document. One way of deciding where the boundary between letters and other forms of text lies, and whether this is a worthwhile question to pose, is to consider borderline cases. Two such cases — the history of the classification as letters of various Greek poems, more recently thought not to qualify as letters, and Cicero's De Officiis — a…
The Ars Amatoria
This chapter contains sections titled: Preliminaries The Ars and Roman Love Elegy The Women of the Ars and the Lex Iulia The Ars, Society, and Augustus The Ars and Erotodidaxis The Ars and Didactic Poetry The Ars and the de Officiis Coda Further Reading
The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger
The careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger go well together. Or at least so Pliny, who explicitly modelled himself on Cicero, would have hoped. Both were men of equestrian and non-Roman origins, noui homines who rose to the consulship (although Pliny notes at Epist . 4.8.5 that he attained both consulship and augurate while younger than Cicero), masters of eloquence in senate and law court, and recognized practitioners of a wide range of literar…
Pliny the Elder
Chapter Eleven. Elder And Better
This chapter looks at the early reception of the Natural History in the Letters of Pliny's nephew and adopted son, and tackles two main issues. First, the author offers evidence against the assumption that the Younger Pliny cared little about or had scant knowledge of the actual contents of the Natural History and, more importantly, argues that the Younger expected his readers to be familiar with the text of that work. Secondly, the author looks …
Confirmed? Pliny, Epistles 1.1 and Sidonius Apollinaris
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On the Nature of Ancient Letter Collections
There exists a strong link in modern thinking between letter collections and biographical or historical narration. Many ancient letter collections have been rearranged by modern editors along chronological lines, apparently with the aim of realizing the biographical and historiographical potential of these ancient collections. In their original format, however, non-fictional Greco-Roman letter collections were arranged predominantly by addressee …
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolograp…
Loves and elegy
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Letters into Autobiography
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an …
Suetonius the Biographer
This chapter surveys Suetonius’ prose style, particularly his tendency to include the emperors’ own words in verbatim quotation. The metaphor of the ‘ventriloquist’ is apt for Suetonius, who frequently uses his biographical subject’s own language to display their character. This method is in direct contrast with the custom of Roman historians, especially Tacitus, who rewrites the original material in his sources, including speeches, to fit with t…
Suetonius and the uiri illustres of Pliny the Younger
This chapter compares the literary figures mentioned in Pliny the Younger’s Letters with the biographical subjects in the remains of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men. Places of overlap and divergence between the two contemporary authors are discussed, and conclusions are drawn about their different reasons for including the names that they do. Pliny’s senatorial outlook is held to explain his greater emphasis on writers of the later Julio-Claudian era,…
Suetonius the Biographer
The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost biographical writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial portraits of the Caesars
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