Roman Papers: Volume VI

Before his death in 1989, Sir Ronald Syme approved the publication of these 59 papers on Roman history which complete this distinguished collection of his life's work.

Shortly before his death in September 1989, Sir Ronald Syme approved the selection and publication of these fifty-nine papers.Volume VI, composed of previously published articles and reviews, offers a splendid cross-section of Syme''s interests: the Roman revolution; the Augustan aristocracy; Tacitus and Sallust; historical geography; the Roman army; a variety of classical authors (Horace, Ovid, Strabo, Seneca, Justin, the Historia Augusta); the Emperor Hadrian; colonial elites; historiography, ancient and modern; and Roman political thought and society.Volume VII consists of twelve unpublished papers (originally intended to form part of a separate book, `Pliny and Italia Transpadana''), in which the two Plinies and their age are put under searching scrutiny. It is rounded off by a Latin text purporting to derive from a lost book of Tacitus'' Histories (duly equipped with commentary); and by an Index to both volumes.