Sydnor Roy, Assistant Professor (Teaching/Instructional), earned her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.A. and Ph. D. (2010) in Classics from UNC Chapel Hill. Her interests include Greek Historiography, the Philosophy of History, Early Political Theory, the Ancient Novel, and Augustan Poetry. She is currently revising her dissertation,Political Relativism: Implicit Political Theory in Herodotus’ Histories, for publication, as well as working on articles on Lucretius, Ovid, and Herodotus. Her most recent publication on Herodotus appears in Histos. In 2012 Dr. Roy won the Distinguished Teaching Award from Temple's College of Liberal Arts. sydnor@temple.edu