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Ronald Syme, né à Eltham le 11 mars 1903 et mort à Oxford le 4 septembre 1989, est un historien britannique, spécialiste de la période de la fin de la République romaine et du début de l’Empire romain.

✵ 11. mars 1903 – 4. septembre 1989   •   Autres noms 纳德·赛姆, 納德·賽姆
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“Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

Source: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 7.

“The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests.”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), ch. 11.
Contexte: The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests. In times of peace and prosperity it commands a wide measure of acquiescence, even of belief. Revolution rends the veil.

“… libertas [liberty], like regnum [kingship] or dominatio [despotism], is a convenient term of political fraud.”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), ch. 11.

“In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade….”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), Introduction.

“Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

Source: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 4.

“The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth.”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

Source: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 9.

“In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade; and Roman history, Republican or Imperial, is the history of the governing class. The marshals, diplomats, and financiers of the Revolution may be discerned again in the Republic of Augustus as the ministers and agents of power, the same men but in different garb. They are the government of the New State.”

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Ronald Syme livre The Roman Revolution

Introduction: Augustus and History
The Roman Revolution (1939)

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