Robin Nisbet

Robert George Murdoch 'Robin' Nisbet, FBA (21 May 1925 – 14 May 2013), known as R. G. M. Nisbet, was a British classicist and academic, specialising in Latin literature. From 1970 to 1992, he was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford.^[1][2] He was the son of Robert G. Nisbet, who was also a classicist, lecturing at the University of Glasgow for 35 years,^[3][4] and author of a commentary on Cicero's speech De domo sua (1939).

Robin Nisbet was educated at the Glasgow Academy, then as an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow from 1943-47, before moving on a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford to take a second undergraduate degree. In 1951 he moved to Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he was appointed a fellow in 1952.^[3] He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.^[2]

Selected works

• Nisbet, R. G. M. (1961). M. Tulli Ciceronis in L. Calpurnium Pisonem oratio. Edited with text, introduction, and commentary. (Reprinted in paperback by the Clarendon Press 1987 ISBN 978-0198721314)
• Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, Margaret (1970). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198144397. 
• Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, Margaret (1978). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198144526. 
• Nisbet, R. G. M. (1995). Harrison, S. J., ed. Collected papers on Latin literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198149484. 
• Nisbet, R. G. M.; Rudd, Niall (2004). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0199263141. 

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