What was Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution about?

Published in 1939, Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution is a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic following the assassination of Julius Caesar. The work offers critical views of Octavian, challenging widely accepted academic perspectives of the time regarding the transition to the Roman Empire.

What we know

• Ronald Syme published The Roman Revolution in 1939, establishing himself as a brilliant exponent of Roman imperial history alongside Edward Gibbon. [1, 2]
• The book provides a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic following the assassination of Julius Caesar. [2]
• The work presents critical views about Octavian that challenged widely accepted views in contemporary academia. [2]

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• whoWho was Ronald Syme?
• whenHow did Octavian become Augustus?
• the bigger pictureWhat was the Roman Empire?
• how it workedHow did the Roman Republic transition to autocracy?
• compared withWho was Theodor Mommsen?
• an unexpected connectionHow does classical ancient history connect to modern New Zealand?Ronald Syme, regarded as one of the greatest historians of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen, was actually born in New Zealand before becoming a prominent British classicist.

Sources

• [1]Ronald Syme (Wikidata Q707856) · CC0 1.0
• [2]Ronald Syme · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [3]Augustus · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [4]Roman Empire · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [5]Hadrian · CC BY-SA 4.0

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