Editing Ronald Syme (section)

{{Short description|New Zealand born British historian and classicist (1903–1989)}}
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| name = Ronald Syme
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| birth_place = [[Eltham, New Zealand|Eltham]], New Zealand
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1989|9|4|1903|3|11}}
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| education = [[New Plymouth Boys' High School]]
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* [[University of Auckland]]
* [[Victoria University of Wellington]]
* [[Oriel College, Oxford]] }}
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| discipline = [[Ancient historian]]
| sub_discipline = {{hlist|[[Roman history]]|[[Crisis of the Roman Republic]]|[[Roman army]]|[[prosopography]]}}
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* [[Trinity College, Oxford]]
* [[Brasenose College, Oxford]]
* [[Wolfson College, Oxford]] }}
| doctoral_students = [[Barbara Levick]] <br /> [[Miriam T. Griffin]] <br /> [[Fergus Millar]]
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| notable_works = ''[[The Roman Revolution]]'' (1939)
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'''Sir Ronald Syme''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|OM|FBA}} (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a [[New Zealand]]-born historian and [[classics|classicist]].<ref>{{citation |title= Ronald Syme, 86, Classics Scholar And Historian at Oxford, Is Dead |journal= [[The New York Times]] |date= September 7, 1989 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/07/obituaries/ronald-syme-86-classics-scholar-and-historian-at-oxford-is-dead.html}}</ref><ref name="Bowersock 1991 pp. 119–122">{{cite journal | last=Bowersock | first=G. W. |author-link=Glen Bowersock | title=Ronald Syme (March 11, 1903 – September 4, 1989) | journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society | publisher=American Philosophical Society | volume=135 | issue=1 | year=1991 | issn=0003-049X | jstor=987156 | pages=119–122 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/987156 | access-date=9 May 2022}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="Bowersock 1991 pp. 119–122" /> 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]].