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According to Wikipedia, Sir Ronald Syme, 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 , a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.

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The Roman Revolution. (1941) (637)
History in Ovid (1978) (147)
Ammianus and the Historia Augusta (1968) (147)
The Augustan Aristocracy (1986) (146)
Livy and Augustus (1959) (104)
Emperors and biography (1971) (95)
Who was Vedius Pollio? (1961) (80)
Caesar, the Senate and Italy (1938) (73)
Pliny the Procurator (1969) (72)
The Career of Arrian (1982) (67)
Some Arval Brethren (1980) (66)
Emperors and biography : studies in the 'Historia Augusta' (1971) (65)
Anatolica : studies in Strabo (1996) (59)
The Marriage of Rubellius Blandus (1982) (59)
Who was Decidius Saxa? (1937) (58)
Ten studies in Tacitus (1970) (57)
Piso Frugi and Crassus Frugi (1960) (52)
Galatia and Pamphylia under Augustus: the Governorships of Piso, Quirinius and Silvanus (1934) (44)
Some Notes on the Legions Under Augustus (1933) (43)
The Colony of Cornelius Fuscus: An Episode in the Bellum Neronis (1937) (38)
Neglected Children on the Ara Pacis (1984) (34)
The Imperial Finances under Domitian, Nerva and Trajan (1930) (34)
The Allegiance of Labienus (1938) (34)
The March of Mucianus (1977) (33)
The Spanish War of Augustus (26-25 B. C.) (1934) (32)
The Sons of Piso the Pontifex (1980) (31)
Some Imperatorial Salutations (1979) (31)
Pamphylia from Augustus to Vespasian (1937) (30)
Domitian: The Last Years (1983) (28)
IV. Fiction about Roman Jurists (1980) (27)
The historia augusta : a call of clarity (1971) (27)
The Cadusii in history and in fiction (1988) (26)
A Great Orator Mislaid (1981) (26)
Some Friends of the Caesars (1956) (26)
Hadrian and Italica (1964) (26)
The Wrong Marcius Turbo (1962) (24)
The Origin of Cornelius Gallus (1938) (24)
Juvenal, Pliny, Tacitus (1979) (24)
The Enigmatic Sospes (1977) (23)
Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii (1979) (20)
Prefects of the City: Vespasian to Trajan (1987) (18)
Military Geography at Rome (1988) (16)
Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas (1958) (16)
People in Pliny (1968) (14)
TheArgonautica of Valerius Flaccus. (1929) (13)
The dating of Pliny's latest letters (1985) (11)
Obituaries in Tacitus (1958) (10)
The crisis of 2 B. C. (1974) (10)
The Composition of the Historia Augusta: Recent Theories (1972) (9)
Roman Africa (1936) (9)
Personal Names in Annals I–VI (1949) (9)
Consulates in Absence (1958) (8)
Guard Prefects of Trajan and Hadrian (1980) (8)
Proconsuls d'Afrique sous Antonin le Pieux (1959) (8)
Problems about Janus (1979) (8)
Tacitus: Some Sources of his Information (1982) (8)
How Tacitus Came to History (1957) (7)
Mendacity in Velleius (1978) (6)
La révolution romaine (1978) (6)
Rhine and Danube Legions under Domitian (1928) (6)
Dynastic Marriages in the Roman Aristocracy (1986) (6)
The Son of the Emperor Macrinus (1972) (6)
Isauria in Pliny (1986) (6)
Princesses and Others in Tacitus (1981) (6)
Marcus Lepidus, Capax Imperii (1955) (6)
The Friend of Tacitus (1957) (5)
Lentulus and the Origin of Moesia (1934) (5)
Exotic names, notably in Seneca's tragedies (1987) (5)
Rome and the Nations (1983) (5)
Eight Consuls from Patavium (1983) (5)
Spaniards at Tivoli. (1982) (4)
Fictional History Old and New: Hadrian (1986) (4)
History of the Roman World (1955) (4)
Some Pisones in Tacitus (1956) (4)
Scorpus the Charioteer. (1977) (4)
The Testamentum Dasumii : Some Novelties (1985) (4)
The Origin of the Veranii (1957) (3)
The Patria of Juvenal (1979) (3)
The Consuls Of A.D. 13 (1966) (3)
Greeks invading the Roman government (1982) (3)
Sallust's Wife (1978) (3)
Carrière et amis consulaires de Pline (1987) (2)
Spanish Pomponii. A study in Nomenclature (1983) (2)
Minor Emendations in Pliny and Tacitus (1980) (2)
The Lower Danube under Trajan (1959) (2)
Antonius Saturninus (1978) (2)
Die römische Revolution (1957) (2)
H. Siber, Das Führeramt des Augustus (Abhandlungen der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse xliv, 2). Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1940. Pp. 107. Rm. 6. 70. (1946) (2)
Les proconsuls d'Afrique sous Hadrien (1965) (2)
Pollio, Saloninus and Salonae (1937) (2)
Tacitus, Vol. 1 (1958) (1)
Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec. I, II, III. Pars II . Consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Borussicae iteratis curis ediderunt Edmundns Groag et Arturus Stein. Berlin and Leipzig: de Gruyter, 1936. Pp. xxii + 399. RM. 38. (1936) (1)
A. Demandt, Zeitkritik und Geschichtsbild im Werk Ammians. (Habelts Dissertationsdrucke. Reihe alte Geschichte, Heft 5.) Bonn: R. Habelt, 1965. Pp. 154. Price not stated. (1968) (1)
Vancouver : explorer of the Pacific coast (1970) (1)
Praesens the Friend of Hadrian (1985) (1)
Arthur Stein, Die Reichsbeamten von Dazien . (Dissertationes Pannonicae Ser. I, Fasc. 12.) Budapest: Numismatic and Archaeological Institute of the Péter Pázmány University, 1944. Pp. 132. (1946) (1)
Book Review:The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol. I: 509 B.C.-100 B.C.; Vol. II: 99 B.C.-31 B.C. T. Robert S. Broughton (1955) (1)
Hadrianic Governors of Syria (1982) (1)
THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA: THREE RECTIFICATIONS (1970) (1)
W. Hoffmann, Livius und der zweite punische Krieg. Hermes, Einzelschriften Heft 8. Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1942. Pp. 129. (1945) (1)
M. Bibulus and Four Sons (1987) (1)
Oligarchy At Rome: a Paradigm for Political Science (1988) (1)
Statius on Rutilius Gallicus (1984) (1)
Lurius Varus, a Stray Consular Legate (1984) (1)
Character Studies from the Roman Empire (1937) (1)
H. Fränkel, Ovid, A Poet Between Two Worlds. (Sather Classical Lectures, vol. XVIII.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1945. Pp. 282. $2.50. (1947) (1)
An Eccentric Patrician (1980) (1)
History and Language At Rome (1974) (1)
Bolívar : the liberator (1968) (1)
ROME BEYOND THE IMPERIAL FRONTIERS . By Sir Mortimer Wheeler. London. G. Bell and Sons, 1954, pp. 192, 38 plates, and map . 25 s . (1955) (1)
Ten Tribunes (1963) (1)
Pseudepigrapha I : Pseudopythagorica - Lettres de Platon, Littérature pseudépigraphique juive : huit exposés suivis de discussions (1971) (0)
A Period of the Roman World (1935) (0)
Tacitus, The Man and His Work@@@Tacitus (1959) (0)
Nigerian pioneer : the story of Mary Slessor (1964) (0)
Brun Vincenz: Alcibiades—Forsaken by Gods and Men . Pp. 373; frontispiece (coloured). London: Putnam, 1936. Cloth, 7s. 6d. (1937) (0)
Fletcher Pratt: Hail, Caesar! Pp. 349; 10 plates. London: Williams and Norgate, 1938. Cloth, 15s. (1938) (0)
Die Schweiz in Römischer Zeit. Von Felix Stähelin. 2nd edition. Basel: Schwabe and Co., 1931. Pp. xvi + 603, with 1 map, 3 plans and 180 illustrations. 25 Swiss francs. (1931) (0)
Roman Frontiers and Roads (1939) (0)
Augustan History and Numismatics (1955) (0)
Reviews and Discussions (1970) (0)
E. Norden, Alt-Germanien . Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1934. Pp. 325 + xi, with 6 plates, 3 text illustrations and 1 map. RM. 14. (paper), 16 (bound). (1936) (0)
Two passengers for Spanish Fork (1963) (0)
Quesada of Colombia (1966) (0)
Notes sur la légion IIIa Augusta (1936) (0)
Johannes Szilágyi, Inscriptiones Tegularum Pannonicarum: Dissertationes Pannonicae 2, 1 (Numismatic and Archaeological Institute of the University of Budapest). Budapest: Sárkány-Nyomda Részvénytársaság, 1933. Pp. 110, and 32 plates. 25 pengö. (1934) (0)
Three Ambivii (1986) (0)
William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania (1966) (0)
A Governor of Syria under Nerva (1936) (0)
F. A. Evelyn: Caesar's Household. A Tragedy. Pp. 74. London: Heath Cranton, 1938. Paper, is. 6d. (1939) (0)
Jack Lindsay: The Romans. (The How-and-Why Series, No. 17.) Pp. 96; 6 black and white drawings. London: Black, 1935. Cloth, 2s. 6d. (1936) (0)
Augustus and Agrippa (1937) (0)
TWO EMENDATIONS IN SALLUST (1962) (0)
Latin Verse Inscriptions (1936) (0)
JRS volume 46 Parts I and II Cover and Front matter (1956) (0)
The Consuls of A.D. 97: Addendum (1954) (0)
G. J. Acheson: Agricola . An English Version of a Roman Tale. Pp. 100. London: Macmillan, 1938. Cloth, 2s. 6d. (1938) (0)
P. Cornelius Tacitus, Annalium ab Excessu Divi Augusti Qvae Supersunt. Edidit Harald Fuchs. Volumen I, libros I–VI continens (Editiones Helveticae, series Latina, 4, 1). Frauenfeld: Huber and Co., 1946. Pp. 252. 7s. 6d. (1948) (0)
M. Gelzer, Caesar der Politiker und Staatsman . Munich: Georg D. W. Callwey, 1941. Pp. 360 with 15 plates and 1 map. Rm. 8.50. (1944) (0)
Trogus in the H.A., some consequences (1992) (0)
Francis A. Evelyn: Agrippina . A Tragedy. Pp. 49. London: Heath Cranton, 1935. Paper, 2s. 6d. (1936) (0)
Books Received (1984) (0)
Books Received (1959) (0)
Dominus Et Deus (1937) (0)
Antony Jack Lindsay: Marc Antony. His World and his Contemporaries. Pp. xii + 330; 13 plates. London: Routledge, 1936. Cloth, 15s. (1937) (0)
W. W. Hyde, Roman Alpine Routes . Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. ii. Philadelphia: the American Philosophical Society, 1935. Pp. xvi+248, with one map. Paper, 13s. 6d. (1936) (0)
Notes on Tacitus, Histories iii (1975) (0)
Francisco Pizarro : finder of Peru (1963) (0)
Toussaint; the Black liberator (1971) (0)
Roman Historians (1951) (0)
Switch-points at Kamlin (1964) (0)
E. H. Clift, Latin Pseudepigrapha. A Study in Literary Attributions. Baltimore: Copyright, Evelyn Hoist Clift, printed by J. H. Furst Company, 1945. Pp. 158. Price not stated. (1947) (0)
Armand Fougnies: Mécène . (Collection Lebègue, No. 83.) Pp. 68. Brussels: Office de Publicity S.C., 1947. Paper, 25 fr. (1948) (0)
From Octavian to Augustus (1934) (0)
Pro-Flavian History (1958) (0)
W. Schur, Das Zeitalter des Marius und Sulla. Klio, Beiheft xlvi. Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1942. Pp. 249. (1944) (0)
A. Stein, Die Präfekten von Ägypten in römischer Zeit. (Dissertationes Bernenses 1, 1.) Bern: A. Francke, 1950. Pp. 248. Swiss frs. 16. (1954) (0)
Arthur Stein, Die Legaten von Moesien . (Dissertations Pannonicae Ser. 1, Fasc. 11.) Budapest: Numismatic and Archaeological Institute of the Péter Pázmány University (Agent in Leipzig, O. Harrassowitz), 1940. Pp. 138. Pengö 15. (1945) (0)
Studien zu Tacitus: Carl Hosius zum siebzigsten Geburtstag dargebracht . (Würzburger Studien zur Altertumswissenschaft, ix.) Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1936. Pp. vii + 148. RM. 9. (1937) (0)
A. Buchbesprechungen (1938) (0)
A. Hennemann; Der äussere und innere Stil in Trajans Briefen . (Diss. Giessen.) Pp. viii + 58. Leipzig: R. Noske, 1935. Paper. (1936) (0)
E. Swoboda, Octavian Und Illyricum . Verein klassischer Philologen in Wien: Parerga, Heft I. Vienna: Höfels, 1932. Pp. 96. Paper. M. 4.50. (1933) (0)
The Spirit of Rome (1938) (0)
Andreas Graf, Übersicht der antiken Geographie von Pannonien (Dissertationes Pannonicae i, 5). Budapest: Institut für Münzkunde und Archäologie der Peter Pázmány-Universität, 1936. Pp. 156 and 1 map. 15 pengö. (1937) (0)
Vespasian - Kaiser Vespasian . Untersuchungen zu Suetons Vita Divi Vespasiani. Von H. R. Graf. Pp. viii +150. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1937. Paper, RM. 9. (1937) (0)
J. Klose, Roms Klientel-Randstaaten am Rhein und an der Donau. (Breslauer historische Untersuchungen, Heft 14.) Breslau: M. and H. Marcus, 1934. Pp. 152. Paper, RM.9. (1935) (0)
Rulers of the Second Century (1939) (0)
The Decline and Fall (1931) (0)
Willy Hüttl, Antoninus Pius . Band II. Prag: J. G. Calve'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1933. Pp. v + 372. Paper, RM. 12. (1935) (0)
E. Kornemann, Staaten, Volker, Manner. (Das Erbe der Alten, 2te. Reihe, xxiv) Leipzig: Dieterich, 1934. Pp. 158 + viii, with 1 plate. Bound, RM. 7. Paper, RM. 6. (1935) (0)
C. Koch, Der römische Juppiter (Frankfurter Studien zur Religion und Kultur der Antike, herausgegeben von Walter F. Otto, xiv). Frankfurt -a.-M.: V. Klostermann, 1937. Pp. 136. RM. 5.25. (1939) (0)
Inscriptiones Italiae (Academiae Italicae consociatae ediderunt. Vol. x, fasc. 2–3; Vol. XIV, fasc. 1). Roma: La Libreria dello Stato, 1934, 1936, 1936. Lire 80, 80, 100. (1937) (0)
Attilio Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae . Florence: La Nuova Italia. Fasc. I, 1957, Fasc. II, 1963. Pp. x + 292, xxv + 547. Paper, L. 3,000; L. 6,000. (1967) (0)
Marcel Durry, Pline le Jeune: Panégyrique de Trajan . Paris: ‘Les Belles Lettres,’ 1938. Pp. 274. 50 francs. (1938) (0)
Discours de Sir Ronald Syme, représentant la Fédération internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques (1967) (0)
Marcel Durry, Les cohortes prétoriennes . (Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, fasc. 146.) Paris : E. de Boccard, 1938. Pp. 454 with 12 plates and 1 plan. 80 francs. (1939) (0)
Philippi P. Collart: Philippes, Ville de Macédoine. Vol. 1: pp. xi + 558. Vol. II: 88 plates. (Ecole Française d'Athènes, Travaux et Mémoires, Fasc. V.) Paris: de Boccard, 1937. Paper, 150 frs. (1938) (0)
Deux proconsulats d'Afrique (1956) (0)
R. Forrer, L'Alsace romaine : Études d'archéologie et d'histoire . Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1935. Pp. 212 + viii, with 41 plates and 59 text-figures. 25 francs. (1936) (0)

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