Roman Papers: Volume V by Ronald Syme

by Ronald Syme

Sir Ronald Syme has been a major figure in classical studies for almost half a century. These final two volumes of Roman Papers contain 42 of Syme's most recent papers. Many of the papers deal with the younger Pliny and with Tacitus, and there are insightful discussions of ancient authors such as Strabo, the elder Pliny, Statius, Quintilian, and Arrian. In addition, Syme sheds much new light on the "Hispano-Narbonensian nexus" that emerged under the Flavians and later formed the Antonine dynasty, the emperor Hadrian and his Antonine successors, and the usurper Avidius Cassius.

Hardcover

First published November 8, 1979

About the author

Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) 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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