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...

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...

entry "Hadrian", Penguin, ISBN 0140515658. Ronald Syme (1988), "Journeys of Hadrian", pp. 164–9. Ronald Syme, "Journeys Of Hadrian". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie...

from Kaikōura, New Zealand Ronald Syme (1903–1989), New Zealand-born historian of ancient Rome and classicist William Smith Syme (1870–1928), Newfoundland-born...

an extent that some have questioned the traditional birth order. Both Ronald Syme and Elizabeth Rawson, however, have argued vigorously for a family dynamic...

husbands; she had a son by him, but Pliny does not provide the child's name. Ronald Syme identifies this son (born c. 15 BC) as the father of Glitius Gallus....

an extent that some have questioned the traditional birth order. Both Ronald Syme and Elizabeth Rawson, however, have argued vigorously for a family dynamic...

the Quinctilii Vari, had long been impoverished and was unimportant; Ronald Syme notes, "The sole and last consul of that family", Sextus Quinctilius...

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...

Sourcebook. Syme, Ronald (1968). Ammianus and the Historia Augusta. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814344-4. Syme, Ronald (1971). Emperors...