Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History - Hardcover

Syme, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198767064 ISBN 13: 9780198767060

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This volume collects 26 previously unpublished studies on Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), drawn from the archive of Syme's papers at the Bodleian Library. This set of papers sheds light on aspects of Republican history that were either overlooked or tangentially discussed in Syme's published work. They range across a wide spectrum of topics, including the political history of the second century BC, the age of Sulla, the conspiracy of Catiline, problems of constitutional law, and the Roman conquest of Umbria. Each of them makes a distinctive contribution to specific historical problems.Taken as a whole, they enable us to reach a more comprehensive assessment of Syme's intellectual and historiographical profile.

The papers are preceded by an introduction that places them within the context of Syme's work and of the current historiography on the Roman Republic and are followed by a full set of bibliographical addenda.

About this title

About the Author:

The late Ronald Syme was Camden Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Federico Santangelo is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is the author of Sulla, the Elites and Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East and Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic, and the co-editor, with J. H. Richardson, of The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and Republican Rome.

Review:

"The reader will surely have concluded that Santangelo has produced a splendid volume, with enough material to enable the reader to follow discussion of all the papers up to the present day. The memory of Sir Ronald has been well served, while we, the readers, profit from having these papers made public." -- Herbert W. Benario, Emory University, CJ-Online

"Santangelo's editorial work deserves to be singled out for special praise. One may justifiably say that his editorial contributions are the most useful aspect of this collection. ... Most constructive, given the age of many of these pieces, are the annotated bibliographies Santangelo supplies for each chapter, which are conveniently printed at the end of the volume (pp. 339-389). The bibliographies provide not only a comprehensive list of the most important studies, but also serve to situate each contribution in its broader scholarly context. These have been compiled and executed with due care and attention. Patently this has been a labour of love for Santangelo, and his efforts demand our respect and gratitude. ... all we need to know about the man whom Sir Fergus Millar once described as the greatest Roman historian of the 20th century." --Christopher Mallan, ryn Mawr Classical Review

"We should be grateful for the editor's labours in bringing these articles of a great scholar into the light of day." --Colin Leach, Classics for All

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0198767064
• ISBN 13: 9780198767060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 446
• Editor: Santangelo Federico