"Mommsen, the indisputable Meister of Roman history, unrivalled in his own day and today."
— Theodor Mommsen

January 1, 1970

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Moses I. Finley, '"Progress" in Historiography', Daedalus, Vol. 106, No. 3, Discoveries and Interpretations: Studies in Contemporary Scholarship, Volume I (Summer 1977), p. 127