ISBN Roman Papers ( Volume VI ) book 486 pages

Shortly before his death in September 1989 Sir Ronald Syme approved the selection and publication of these fifty-nine papers. Volume VI composed of previously published articles and reviews offers a splendid cross-section of Syme's interests: the Roman revolution; the Augustan aristocracy; Tacitus and Sallust; historical geography; the Roman army; a variety of classical authors (Horace Ovid Strabo Seneca Justin the Historia Augusta); the Emperor Hadrian; colonial elites; historiography ancient and modern; and Roman political thought and society. Volume VII consists of twelve unpublished papers (originally intended to form part of a separate book `Pliny and Italia Transpadana') in which the two Plinies and their age are put under searching scrutiny. It is rounded off by a Latin text purporting to derive from a lost book of Tacitus' Histories (duly equipped with commentary); and by an Index to both volumes.