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DEATHS
; SIR RONALD SYME Noted Historian Sir Ronald Syme, 86, an Oxford historian whose field was ancient Greece and...constitutional structure of the Roman emperors as his predecessors had, Sir Ronald concentrated on the lust for power and money that motivated...
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(book review)
; ...KOUMOULIDES' book comprises the texts of 10 lectures on the study of Greece ancient and modern. Jasper Griffin and Sir Ronald Syme extol various facets of the Classical genius. Prof. Lefkowitz (`Choppy ...', above) takes another opportunity to affirm...
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Hood's lack of style
; Sir: Lord Patten ('Westminster politics has nothing on Oxford...in last week's magazine. 'The great modern iconoclast' Sir Ronald Syme certainly was. However, he was also so steeped in the...systems managers. At the end of his book on Tacitus, Syme observes: 'Men and dynasties pass, but style ...
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Letter: As rich as Crassus
; Sir: The study of classics may be in decline, but it would be encouraging if journalists got their classical references...along with Caesar and Pompey the Great - a rich man plus a populist politician and a seasoned general. The historian Sir Ronald Syme commented: "The lust of power, that prime ...
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May his bones rot!
; ...philosophers, a bit of a poet. The sources are scrappy but not hopelessly inadequate; and in the words of the late Sir Ronald Syme, `We confront a real person . . . something like a character in a modern novel.' He was so Greek in his tastes that...
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That Wasn't Jesus
; ...the land which originated this evil, but also in the city of Rome." Tacitus is considered by historians today (see Sir Ronald Syme's two- volumed "Tacitus") as equal to a modern historian in his recording of fact, though there is some debate about...
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Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy
; ...struggle in antiquity dwarfed the meager output of most of his Oxford contemporaries (with the signal exception of Sir Ronald Syme), and his university lectures, after he became a Fellow of New College in 1953, were among the few that students found...
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Features: Leading Article: Bottom of the class
; ...stuffed full of the Prime Minister's cronies. Not since Sir Alec Douglas-Home's 1963 Cabinet, which included 10 Old...Blairite network. "In all ages," as the great Roman historian Ronald Syme, wrote "whatever the form and name of government, be it...
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OBITUARIES : Geoffrey Flavell
; ...London. He studied under the remarkable Sir William Girling Ball, the original of the book and film character Sir Lancelot Spratt. Flavell qualified in...worked closely with this fellow countryman Sir Archibald Macindoe, of Guinea Pig fame...His fellow New Zealander the classicist Sir ...
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HARVARD PRESENTS 8 WITH HONORARY DEGREES
; ...and information theory. - Sir Ronald Syme, authority in the history...Academy of Arts since 1976, Sir Ronald began his scholarly career...Advancement of Science. - Sir Richard Doll, epidemiologist. Sir Richard has investigated the...
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