Ronald Syme

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Sir Ronald Syme OM FBA
Born	(1903-03-11)11 March 1903 Eltham, New Zealand
Died	4 September 1989(1989-09-04) (aged 86)
Nationality	New Zealander, British
Academic background
Education	New Plymouth Boys' High School
Alma mater	University of Auckland Victoria University of Wellington Oriel College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Ancient historian
Sub-discipline	Roman history Crisis of the Roman Republic Roman army prosopography
Institutions	Trinity College, Oxford Brasenose College, Oxford Wolfson College, Oxford
Doctoral students	Barbara Levick Miriam T. Griffin Fergus Millar
Notable works	The Roman Revolution (1939)

Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.^[1][2] 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.^[2] 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.