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Syme, Ronald, 1903-1989

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Personal name headingSyme, Ronald, 1903-1989
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Birth date1903-03-11
Death date1989-09-04
Place of birthEltham (N.Z.)
Place of deathOxford (England)
AffiliationWolfson College (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Classicists Historians
Found inHis Caesar, the Senate and Italy.
His Roman papers, 1979- : CIP t.p., v. 6 (Ronald Syme) galley (d. 9-4-89)
Approaching the Roman revolution, 2017: title page (by Sir Ronald Syme, edited by Federico Santangelo) dust jacket (Sir Ronald Symes, late Camden professor of ancient history and fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
Wikipedia, 14 June 2017 (Ronald Syme; Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903, Eltham, New Zealand--4 September 1989, Oxford, England) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist; long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome; 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)
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