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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Ronald Syme

Born: March 11, 1903
Died: September 4, 1989 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir Ronald Syme was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome. His great work was The Roman Revolution, a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Known for:
- The Roman Revolution (1939)
- Roman Papers (1979)
- The Augustan aristocracy (1986)
- Anatolica: Studies in Strabo
- Sallust (1964)