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Ronald Syme | |
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Born | Eltham, New Zealand | 11 March 1903
Died | 4 September 1989 | (aged 86)
Nationality | New Zealander, British |
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Education | New Plymouth Boys' High School |
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Discipline | Ancient historian |
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Doctoral students | Barbara Levick Miriam T. Griffin Fergus Millar |
Notable works | The Roman Revolution (1939) |
Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.[1][2] He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon.[2] His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.