Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian...
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Zealand Ronald Syme (1903–1989), New Zealand-born historian of ancient Rome and classicist Ronald Syme (author) (1910–1992), born Neville Ronald Syme, author...
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an extent that some have questioned the traditional birth order. Both Ronald Syme and Elizabeth Rawson, however, have argued vigorously for a family dynamic...
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Pharsalus and Thapsus, where he was defeated. He later committed suicide. Ronald Syme called him "the last Scipio of any consequence in Roman history." The...
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entry "Hadrian", Penguin, ISBN 0140515658. Ronald Syme (1988), "Journeys of Hadrian", pp. 164–9. Ronald Syme, "Journeys Of Hadrian". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie...
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the Quinctilii Vari, had long been impoverished and was unimportant; Ronald Syme notes, "The sole and last consul of that family", Sextus Quinctilius...
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an extent that some have questioned the traditional birth order. Both Ronald Syme and Elizabeth Rawson, however, have argued vigorously for a family dynamic...
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of the Roman Empire by Caesar Augustus. The book was the work of Sir Ronald Syme (1903–1989), a noted Tacitean scholar, and was published by the Oxford...
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Silanus' relationship to the other Junii Silani is uncertain. According to Ronald Syme, he, the Decimus Junius Silanus who had an affair with Julia the Younger...
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Sourcebook. Syme, Ronald (1968). Ammianus and the Historia Augusta. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814344-4. Syme, Ronald (1971). Emperors...
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He is not heard of after this, and Syme concludes from this silence he died not long after. According to Ronald Syme, Piso "united loyalty to Roman standards...
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Robert Fitzgerald, Vintage Classics, p. 252. Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (1987), 314. Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated...
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was born in 59 BC and died in AD 17. First proposed by G. M. Hirst, Ronald Syme and others have suggested bringing his birth and death dates back five...
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Syme, Ronald (1960). "Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 104 (3): 323–327. JSTOR 985248. Syme, Ronald...
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by generations of historians, first by Friedrich Münzer, followed by Ronald Syme, who considered that Roman politics was marked by familial and individual...
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A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205 Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 150-1 Syme, Ronald (1989). "Two Nieces of Augustus". The Augustan Aristocracy...
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com. Retrieved 2023-02-03. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), pp. 417f Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), p. 59 Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford...
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return of Augustus and Agrippa to Rome after pacifying the provinces. Sir Ronald Syme dated the closure to 7 BC, to coincide with the triumph of Tiberius and...
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junior officer, as was the custom for young men of equestrian rank. Ronald Syme, Plinian scholar, reconstructs three periods at three ranks. Pliny's...
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second season of Domina, played by actress Joelle. Nepos, Atticus 12 Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (1987), 314. Suetonius, Tiberius 7 Seager 2005...
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else a Cornelius Lentulus by birth adopted into the Servilii Vatiae. Ronald Syme also agreed that the name 'Batiatus' was surely a corruption of 'Vatia'...
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empress Domitia Longina, but this theory is not endorsed to any extent. Ronald Syme believes that if Cassia was a daughter of Lucius then she was so by a...
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884. Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 9780198147312. Syme, Ronald (1989)...
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Latin appears to be consistent with the style of the second century. Ronald Syme, however, argues for a date around AD 390, immediately before the compilation...
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June 43, the sortition selected Passienus proconsular governor of Asia. Ronald Syme once described this office as "of the highest dignity in the senatorial...
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Principate. During her lifetime she was famed for her beauty, but as Ronald Syme writes, her "fame and follies have been all but extinguished by her homonymous...
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authorities—including Bartolomeo Borghesi, Hermann Dessau, Edmund Groag and Ronald Syme—have suggested that he was Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, consul...
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political deal-making in 56 BC is vast. Other works consulted include Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1939, reissued 2002)...
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never travelled to Germania thus his information is second-hand at best. Ronald Syme supposed that Tacitus closely copied the lost Bella Germaniae of Pliny...
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world order in 13 BCE. ISBN 978-0-549-83411-3.[permanent dead link] Sir Ronald Syme had suggested a later date (but Rome was then at war). Temin, Peter (2013)...
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