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Provincial At Rome: and Rome and the Balkans 80BC-AD14 (CLASSICAL STUDIES AND ANCIENT HISTORY)
Provincial At Rome and Rome and the Balkans 80BCAD14 - CLASSICAL STUDIES AND ANCIENT HISTORY Author:Ronald Syme 'Anthony Birley and his Dusseldorf team have done a fine job in editing and presenting Syme's manuscript-clearly a considerable responsibility . . . This is a fascinating book, and can be highly recommended . . . it deserves attention as an historiographical gem, of enormous interest and importance in helping us understand Syme's development to... more » become one of the greatest modern authorities on imperial Rome.' - Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 00.06.14 'Retrieval, reconstruction and publication of work long ago discarded by deceased scholars can be a matter for regret when better consigned to oblivion. Not so here. Many will enjoy the clear and taut arguments unencumbered by a mass of redundant annotation. Syme had a matchless talent for illuminating the nuances of Roman high society through close attention to origins, marriage, relationships and the working of patronage. Here it is deployed to illustrate the advance of new men under the Julio-Claudians, a theme to which he returned later more than once but perhaps never with the verve and brilliance of this inaugural essay.' - JACT Bulletin 29 (Summer 2001)« less