Bøger af Ronald Syme

Contains 42 of Sir Ronald Syme's papers composed between 1981 and 1985. Many of them deal with Pliny the Younger and Tacitus; also Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Statius, Quintilian, and Arrian. Several papers concern the Spanish provinces and the Greek east.

Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. This is a foreword of Syme that delivers biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English.