Ronald Syme
1903
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1989
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom, New Zealand
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Auckland, Oriel College, Victoria University of Wellington
occupation: historian, university teacher, classical scholar, translator
Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. 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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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