Ronald Syme, New Zealand historian and author (born 1903)

Ronald Syme

New Zealand born British historian and classicist (1903–1989)

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…