Approaching the Roman Revolution

Abstract A collection of twenty-six previously unpublished papers on Roman Republican history by the late Sir Ronald Syme. Titles: The Divorce of Aemilius Paullus; The Predominance of the Fulvii; The Politics of the Marcii; The Abdication of Sulla; The Speech for Roscius of America; M. Aemilius Lepidus (cos. 78 bc); Satellites of Sulla; The Unspeakable Fufidius; Rex Leptasta; Sallust and Bestia; Rome and Arpinum; The Consular Elections, 70–66 bc; Catilina’s Three Marriages; Crassus, Catilina, and the Vestal Virgins; Sallust on Crassus; Sallust’s List of Conspirators; P. Sulla (cos. cand. 66 bc); The Gay Sempronia; The End of the Fulvii; Caesar as Pontifex Maximus; Cicero’s Change of Plan; Nicolaus of Damascus XXVIII and XXXI Virgil’s First Patron; Caesar and Augustus in Virgil; How Many Fasces?; Rome and Umbria.