Arnaldo Momigliano: Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1939. Pp. 568. 21s. In: The Journal of Roman Studies. Bd. 30, 1940, S. 75–80, doi:10.2307/296948: Momigliano bezeichnet Symes Buch als „a reference book for prosopographical research“ (S. 75), kritisiert aber diesen Ansatz: „a faction or even a party, in the sense of a limited, circumscribed, number of men, cannot explain the Augustan principate. In other words, we shall reaffirm that prosopographical research cannot give a sufficient interpretation of this period (and, we would add, of any historical period).“ (S. 77).
