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en-wikipedia-org-9945		Ronald Syme - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2197	215	59	Find sources: "Ronald Syme" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.[1][2] His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar. After being elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1944, Syme was appointed Camden Professor of Ancient History at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1949, a position which he held until his retirement in 1970. Syme's doctoral students at the University of Oxford included Barbara Levick (whose thesis in the mid-1950s dealt with Roman colonies in south Asia Minor), and Miriam T. ^ "Ronald Syme, 86, Classics Scholar And Historian at Oxford, Is Dead", The New York Times, 7 September 1989	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9945.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9945.txt