Roy Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Inmarsat (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future developme…
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…
Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles
Pliny's Epistles are full of literary artistry. This volume of essays by an impressive international team of scholars showcases this by exploring the intertextual, interdiscursive and also intermedial character of the collection. It provides a contribution to the recent scholarly interest in Latin prose intertextuality and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. Focusing on the whole collection as well as on single books…
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…
Pliny and Plutarch's Practical Ethics
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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…
Not Dark Yet…
This chapter argues that the final book of the ‘private’ letters of Pliny—Book 9—has a significant role to play within the collected correspondence, namely to stimulate the reader to return to the start of the collection and to commence reading again with fresh eyes. In particular, the supply of rather dark material in Book 9—allied to the close of the collection in letter 9.40 with the onset of night—licenses and encourages the reader to detect …
The Roman Paratext
What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting meaning, or the assumptions that underpin our own interpretation? These questions are central to the conceptual and practical concerns of the volume, which o…
Loves and elegy
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Pliny and the Letters of Sidonius
Despite Sidonius's explicit assertion that his Letters are modeled on the correspondence of Pliny, critics have found the harvest of Plinian material in Sidonius's text rather thin. As a result, the importance of Pliny to Sidonius has been somewhat doubted or underplayed. This paper argues that Sidonian critics have been searching for Pliny in the wrong place. The influence of Pliny is to be found not (so much) in the linguistic texture of Sidoni…
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 …
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. T…
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…
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
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
'Cf. e.g.'
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…
Book Endings in Greek Poetry and Ars Amatoria 2 and 3
Europe's future in space
Journal Article Europe's future in space: a joint policy report Get access Europe's future in space: a joint policy report. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul for five European Institutes: Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (Bonn), Institut François des Relations Internationales (Paris), Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen ‘Clingendael’ (The Hague), and Royal I…
The next step—Space stations
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 …
Pliny the Elder
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. T…
Pliny and the Letters of Sidonius
Despite Sidonius's explicit assertion that his Letters are modeled on the correspondence of Pliny, critics have found the harvest of Plinian material in Sidonius's text rather thin. As a result, the importance of Pliny to Sidonius has been somewhat doubted or underplayed. This paper argues that Sidonian critics have been searching for Pliny in the wrong place. The influence of Pliny is to be found not (so much) in the linguistic texture of Sidoni…
Book Endings in Greek Poetry and Ars Amatoria 2 and 3
The next step—Space stations
Europe's future in space
Journal Article Europe's future in space: a joint policy report Get access Europe's future in space: a joint policy report. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul for five European Institutes: Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (Bonn), Institut François des Relations Internationales (Paris), Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen ‘Clingendael’ (The Hague), and Royal I…
Book Endings in Greek Poetry and Ars Amatoria 2 and 3
'Cf. e.g.'
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…
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 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…
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. T…
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 …
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.
Pliny and the Letters of Sidonius
Despite Sidonius's explicit assertion that his Letters are modeled on the correspondence of Pliny, critics have found the harvest of Plinian material in Sidonius's text rather thin. As a result, the importance of Pliny to Sidonius has been somewhat doubted or underplayed. This paper argues that Sidonian critics have been searching for Pliny in the wrong place. The influence of Pliny is to be found not (so much) in the linguistic texture of Sidoni…
The Roman Paratext
What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting meaning, or the assumptions that underpin our own interpretation? These questions are central to the conceptual and practical concerns of the volume, which o…
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…
Not Dark Yet…
This chapter argues that the final book of the ‘private’ letters of Pliny—Book 9—has a significant role to play within the collected correspondence, namely to stimulate the reader to return to the start of the collection and to commence reading again with fresh eyes. In particular, the supply of rather dark material in Book 9—allied to the close of the collection in letter 9.40 with the onset of night—licenses and encourages the reader to detect …
Pliny and Plutarch's Practical Ethics
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.
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…
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…
Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles
Pliny's Epistles are full of literary artistry. This volume of essays by an impressive international team of scholars showcases this by exploring the intertextual, interdiscursive and also intermedial character of the collection. It provides a contribution to the recent scholarly interest in Latin prose intertextuality and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. Focusing on the whole collection as well as on single books…
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future developme…
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