The Travels of Captain Cook

Syme, Ronald

McGraw=Hill

The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.

The Roman Revolution

History

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

This now-classic work seeks to place Tacitus in his social and political context. Syme not only analyzes in detail Tacitus's writings, their development and style, but also his political career, using his progress through government to illustrate the process that brought new men from the western provinces to success and primacy at Rome.

Tacitus

Literature & Fiction

This classic study builds on the work of Dessau in resssessing the nature of the Historia Augusta, in particular establishing the influence of Ammianus Marcellinus on the work, which Syme argues was the product of a single author writing in at the end of the fourth or start of the fifth century.

Ammianus and the Historia Augusta

Emperors and biography: Studies in the 'Historia Augusta'

viii 152p large cloth, yellow dustjacket present, text all clean and binding tight, never used, first edition

Ten studies in Tacitus

Roman Papers Volume 1

Badian, E.

Dramas & Plays

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Previous owner's name. Corner-clipped dust jacket.

History in Ovid (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)

Some Arval Brethren

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

These fifty-nine papers on Roman history complete the collection of Sir Ronald Syme's life work. Volume VI covers such varied topics as human rights and social status at Rome; marriage ages for senators; oligarchy at Rome; a paradigm for political science; military geography; diet at Capri; early priesthood; and unrecognized authors from Spain. Volume VII contains later, unpublished work that was still in manuscript form at the time of his death in 1989. The final paper is an ingenious spoof on Tacitus, comprising a Latin text on the story of Titus and Berenice and historical commentary.

Roman Papers

Business & Money

International

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