Roman Papers: Volume III

'These volumes represent the final as well as the most recent publications of a greatly renowned scholar ... his acute judgment and learning will abide.'Ramsay MacMullen, Arion
'The final two volumes exhibit the breadth, erudition, wit and point that readers have come to expect and enjoy. It may be predicted with confidence that this jeu d'ésprit will be the fulcrum of many a future study of twentieth-century historiography in general and of Syme and his work in particular.'David Braund, University of Exeter, The Classical Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, 1993
'two years after the death of the great Oxford scholar, two further volumes were published, again under the careful supervision of A. R. Birley. To him we also owe the extensive index of manes (VII, 663-710) which makes the wealth of the material handled by Syme accessible. Not everybody would have put in this amount of effort and care... Syme's main interest was in themes of a prosopographical nature, particularly concerned with senatorial and masterly essay style... done with his characteristic mastery and restraint.'Werner Eck, Cologne