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NameSydnor Roy
PositionAssociate Professor
AffiliationTexas Tech
Latitude40.0066524
Longitude-75.3075067
Research Interests

Greek historiography, Political history, Herodotus

Websiteshttps://www.depts.ttu.edu/classic_modern/classics/people/Bishop.php
Publications

Articles

Naming the Roman Stars: Constellation Etymologies in Cicero's Aratea and De Natura Deorum. Classical Quarterly 66.1 (2016): 155-71

How to Make a Roman Demosthenes: Self-Fashioning in Cicero's Brutus and Orator. Forthcoming in Classical Journal 111.2, December 2015.
Book Chapters

"Hipparchus Among the Detractors," Classical Commentaries, ed. C.S. Kraus and C. Stray, Oxford University Press, 2016: 379-96.

"Roman Plato or Roman Demosthenes? The bifurcation of Cicero in ancient scholarship," in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero, ed. W.H.F. Altman, 2015: 283-306.
Reviews

E. Gee, Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition. Classical Review 65.1 (2015): 76-78.

D. Lehoux, What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.47.

R.A. Kaster, Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia. Classical Review 62.1 (2012): 197-199.
Books in Progress

Cicero's Intellectual Politics: Greek learning and the making of a Roman classic

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