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Sir Ronald Syme

 
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: Sir Ronald Syme
Syme, Sir Ronald, 1903-89, British historian. After studying and teaching at Oxford, he served the British government in Belgrade and Ankara during World War II and taught (1942-45) at Istanbul Univ. An eminent scholar of classical Rome, he wrote the objective and controversial Roman Revolution (1939) and a biography of Tacitus (1958).
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