Gilleland Reads Syme so We Don't Have To

Well actually, I did read Ronald Syme's Roman Revolution a couple of years back with profit and a somewhat qualified pleasure. Syme is shrewd and sardonic and on occasion witty. But he carpet-bombs you with detail, as if to say: hey, I really know what I am talking about.

I believe, I believe. But we are lucky to have the services of that great benefactor to humankind, Michael Gilleland, who has shelled all the black Symean walnuts and pried out the meat. I could copy them, but go read them in their natural habitat here.