# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-syme
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:31:31.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-syme"
name: "Ronald Syme"
slug: "ronald-syme"
description: "Sir Ronald Syme was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of political life in the Roman Republic following the assassination of Julius Caesar, offering critical views about Octavian in particular that challenged widely accepted views in contemporary academia."
tagline: "New Zealand born British historian and classicist (1903-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronald_Syme.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1903-03-11"
deathDate: "1989-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump