Top 4 Quotes by Ronald Syme

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

Blood, Born, Monarchy

Ronald Syme (2002). “The Roman Revolution”, p.201, OUP Oxford

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

Vitality, Aristocracy, Empires

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Army, History, Income

Women have their uses for historians.

Use, Historian

Ronald Syme (1989). “The Augustan Aristocracy”, p.168, Oxford University Press

Ronald Syme Quotes