Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Ronald Syme

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Ronald Syme

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 (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.

March 11, 1903 - September 4, 1989
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery. — © Ronald Syme
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.
Women have their uses for historians.
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.
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