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... any ancient parchments with new data recently :-D But yeah, you know... Plutarch's Lives, a little from Appian, Syme's Roman Revolution and even more popular stuff like Holland's Rubicon helps to keep perspective when reading ultra-boring Syme haha...throw Scullard in here too :-)
I'm ... I don't know Holland, but Syme's The Roman Revolution was thorough if perhaps a bit creaky with age. For some lighter reading to get in the mood, try the Plutarch biographies included in Penguin's Makers of Rome and Fall of the Roman Republic. ... takes a narrative approach guiding you through the period of the civil wars up to Augustus in the way that guys like Syme and Scullard do, only Holland is actually readable, haha. It's one of those books you literally don't want to stop reading, but you have to because your eyes hurt :-D ... seems everything I want isn't coming out until spring. I finally went for The Analects, The Long Weekend, Blake, and The Roman Revolution. Finished No. 49 and No. 55. Starting
No. 56: Syme's The Roman Revolution
I'm reading this for The Roman History Reading Group's online chats on April 2 and 16 and May 7. Do join us if you're interested.
TBR ... ... source.
Ronald Syme may be old school, and I can't say myself whether he's "outdated" (I tend to think not), but his Roman Revolution does perhaps remain somewhat controversial. For some insight into Syme the man and his influence on modern scholarship, see the forward by Ronald Mellor ... I'll pile on and add a recommendation for Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution. Although Syme's style is perhaps unusual by some standards today, I find him engaging and witty. He is usually considered one of the best historians on this subject in the 20th century. At least one professor of ... I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution. It's controversial, of course, but it's one of the most influential interpretations of Augustus. Ronald Syme is really two authors:
Sir Ronald Syme (1903-1989), author of The Roman Revolution
Ronald Syme (1910-), author of Magellan: First Around the World
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