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Anatolica - Studies in Strabo (Hardcover, New)
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Anatolica - Studies in Strabo (Hardcover, New)
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No historian of ancient Rome in this century has had a greater
influence on historical research or won greater international
acclaim than Sir Ronald Syne (1903-89). His outstanding position
was due mainly to his first two books, The Roman Revolution, which
appeared in 1939, and Tacitus (two volumes, 1958) - although he
went on to produce many more monographs, and seven volumes of his
Roman Papers have so far appeared. The long gap between his first
two books is partly explained by the war, which took him on
official duties to Belgrade and Ankara; and he spent the years
1943-5 at Istanbul as Professor of Classical Philology. It was
known that in spite of the war, Syme had continued to write in
these years, in particular `Strabonia', investigations into the
famous ancient Geography composed by Strabo, a native of Asia Minor
in the time of Augustus. After Syme's death, the manuscript was
discovered among his papers: he had not quite completed the work,
but what he had written, with almost complete annotation,
represents a substantial and fascinating study of the historical
geography of Anatolia in the Hellenistic and early Roman period.
Syme ruthlessly dissects the often incoherent and inconsistent text
of Strabo, at the same time providing rich detail on client kings,
Roman generals and emperors, writers and travellers. Above all, he
shows unequalled ability to understand the landscape and settlement
of Anatolia; and the work is composed in the same forceful and
elegant style that made his other books classics of historical
literature.
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