Syme's

Syme's eye always caught the black glasses and the blind grin.

Archive 2009-12-01 Karen Burnham 2009

Syme's eye always caught the black glasses and the blind grin.

Nightmare & Fantasy, of the Most Mundane Sort Karen Burnham 2009

That's really the charm of Syme's book: painstakingly researched history, told with charm and wit.

Read this book. Patrick J. Smith 2007

Still, Syme's tome is an example of really good history.

Archive 2007-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

Still, Syme's tome is an example of really good history.

Read this book. Patrick J. Smith 2007

That's really the charm of Syme's book: painstakingly researched history, told with charm and wit.

Archive 2007-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

As I review my career in Classics, I find a handful of books that stick in my mind as the ones I found really "great" — Reid's Municipalities of the Roman Empire, Beloch and De Sanctis on the Roman Republic, Devot's Antichi Italici and Syme's Roman Revolution.

O Mighty Caesar! Kahn, Arthur D. 1988

One of the interesting developments of the Sixties is that Syme's best pupils moved to precise problems of social and intellectual history (such as the economic exploitation of the provinces or the second sophistic) and began to face the question of the relations between elites and masses.

Bearing Gifts Lloyd-Jones, Hugh 1976

Syme's opinion and influence no doubt counted for much.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

In his new home in the north Lister could watch the boldest operator in his own profession, and could daily meet men scarcely less distinguished in other sciences, and as a visitor to Syme's house he was from time to time thrown among able men following widely different lines in life.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore