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R. G. M. Nisbet (1925–2013)

Author of A commentary on Horace: Odes, book 1

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Includes the names: Robin Nisbet, R. G. M. Nisbet, Robin George Murdoch Nisbet

Works by R. G. M. Nisbet

A commentary on Horace: Odes, book 1 (1970) 48 copies

A commentary on Horace : Odes, book II (1978) 33 copies

A commentary on Horace : Odes, book III (2004) 22 copies

Collected Papers on Latin Literature (1995) 4 copies

A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 1 by R. G. M. Nisbet (1970-03-15) (1656) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) 1,223 copies, 2 reviews

Satire: critical essays on Roman literature (1962) — Contributor — 38 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Horace (2007) — Contributor — 37 copies

Cicero: In L. Calpurnium Pisonem Oratio (Clarendon Paperbacks) (1961) — Editor, some editions — 31 copies

Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid (1990) — Contributor — 30 copies

A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (2009) — Contributor — 15 copies, 1 review

Author and Audience in Latin Literature (1992) — Contributor — 14 copies

Owls to Athens: Essays on Classical Culture Presented to Sir Kenneth Dover (1990) — Contributor — 13 copies

Oxford Readings in Vergil's Eclogues (2008) — Contributor — 10 copies

Oxford Readings in Horace: Odes and Epodes (2009) — Contributor — 8 copies

A Companion to the Prologue to Apuleius' Metamorphoses (2001) — Contributor — 7 copies

Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry (1999) — Contributor — 7 copies

Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and Lyric (2017) — Contributor — 7 copies

Oxford Readings in Seneca (2008) — Contributor — 7 copies

Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus (1984) — Contributor — 6 copies

Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (2002) — Contributor — 6 copies

Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday (1995) — Contributor — 6 copies

Vertis in usum : studies in honor of Edward Courtney (2002) — Contributor — 5 copies

Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Sixth Volume, 1990. Roman poetry and drama; Greek epic, comedy, rhetoric (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and… (1990) — Contributor — 3 copies

Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies

Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar, Vol 4, 1983 (Arca, 11) (v. 4) (1984) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Nisbet, R. G. M.
Legal name: Nisbet, Robert George Murdoch
Other names: Nisbet, Robin
Birthdate: 1925-05-21
Date of death: 2013-05-14
Gender: male
Education: University of Glasgow (MA|1947)
Balliol College, University of Oxford (BA|1951)
Occupations: professor
classicist
Organizations: Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Awards and honors: Fellow, British Academy (1987)
Kenyon Medal (1997)
Relationships: Nisbet, Robert G. (father)
Nationality: UK
Scotland
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Places of residence: Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Place of death: Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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Rating: 3.9

ISBNs: 11

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