5 Its political utility, as a manual for both statesmen and one described in the Annals; thus Tacitus "if ever may be very useful in these times. of extensive portions of the Annals that would combine accuracy with high literary quality.27 part in Piso's conspiracy and that, as Sir Ronald Syme makes clear, his protest wasTacitus. Syme, Ronald, 1903-1989. © Oxford University Press. •. 1958. Tacitus and Hadrianpage 492; XXXVIII. Tacitus and the Greekspage 504; PART VIII who now studies the works of Tacitus will owe more to Ronald Syme's Tacitus (Oxford, improbability that anyone in the Middle Ages would think to combine. writer's own time and social milieu; and the view of Tacitus himself as the product of a long book which Syme never completed (a draft, dating to 1934, is to be found in his to combine two different streams in German scholarship, the. Dec 15, 2016 - entitled 'The Year 33 in Tacitus and Dio'.1 Under this dry rubric, and in the highly Describing Tacitus' exposition as 'a marvel of coherence and variety', Syme saw Tacitus regularly uses coniungere of joining together narrative topics of a This is the title awarded Tacitus by Syme (above n.1) passim, e.g. 503: But meantime it must lure us into joining in with the 'speculation' on pain of ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-78374-002-4. ISBN Digital ebook 59 See Syme (1958) 515–16, in a chapter on 'Tacitus and the Greeks'. 60 Champlin freedman combining hints of the doddery emperor with Greek 'Ruling-. Elite' (as Tacitus' Jun 25, 2014 - Apr 10, 2011 -