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About the Author

Laura Gibbs teaches online courses at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. You can see some of her courses at mythfolklore.net. She has taught Mythology & Folklore, World Literature, Epics of Ancient India, Medieval Latin and Biblical Greek online. She joined the OU faculty in 1999 and has been a full-time online instructor for the past three years.

In addition to her websites, Laura has also published a translation of Aesop's Fables for Oxford University Press. You can learn more about that book at the aesopica.net website. It contains English translations of 600 Aesop's fables, making it the most complete edition of Aesop's fables currently available in English. The fables are translated from a wide variety of Greek and Latin sources, including the Greek prose versions of Aesop, as well as the poets Babrius, Phaedrus, and Avianus, along with many other ancient writers.

Laura is also the author of the English translation of Maurizio Bettini's Il ritratto dell'amante (English title: The Portrait of the Lover), published by the University of California Press. The book is a study of the ancient Greek and Roman legends that tell of people who fall in love with statues or with paintings, using these visual representations as substitutes for an absent beloved.

Together with Randy Hoyt, Laura is the creator of the Rotating Content Tool, an easy-to-use javascript generator that allows you to add random content to your website (like the random image you see up in the left-hand corner of this webpage whenever you refresh the page!).

Laura received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 (languages: Latin, Greek, Polish and Sanskrit). She received an M.Phil. in European Literature from Oxford University in 1988, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She took her B.A. in Classical Languages and Slavic Languages at the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. She has been studying animal folklore and legends for the past twenty years... and shows no signs of giving it up any time soon!

You can contact Laura by email at laura@bestlatin.net. Suggestions and recommendations for this website will be greatly appreciated!