Howard Hayes Scullard

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Howard Hayes Scullard (February 9, 1903March 31, 1983) was a British historian specializing in ancient history, notable for editing the Oxford Classical Dictionary and for his many books.

Scullard's father was Herbert Hayes Scullard, a minister, and his mother Barbara Louisa Dodds.

Born in Bedford, England, his early education was at Highgate School, followed by St. John's College, Cambridge. He was a tutor and then reader at New College, from 1935 to 1959, when he became Professor of Ancient History at King's College London, retiring in 1970.

[edit] Books

  • Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War Thirlwall Prize Essay (University Press, Cambridge, 1930)
  • A history of the Roman world from 753 to 146 BC (Methuen, London, 1935)
  • editor (with H. E. Butler), of Livy, Book XXX (Methuen, London, 1939)
  • Roman politics (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1951)
  • editor Atlas of the Classical World (Nelson, London and Edinburgh, 1959)
  • From the Gracchi to Nero: a history of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68 (Methuen, London, 1959)
  • editor, The grandeur that was Rome (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1961)
  • Shorter atlas of the classical world (Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh, 1962)
  • The Etruscan cities and Rome (Thames and Hudson, London, 1967)
  • Scipio Africanus: soldier and politician (Thames and Hudson, London, 1970)
  • editor (with N. G. L. Hammond) Oxford Classical Dictionary (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970)
  • The elephant in the Greek and Roman world (Thames and Hudson, London, 1974)
  • A history of Rome down to the reign of Constantine (Macmillan, London, 1975)
  • Roman Britain: outpost of the Empire (Thames and Hudson, London, 1979)
  • Festivals and ceremonies of the Roman Republic (Thames and Hudson, London, c1981)

[edit] References

  • Necrology by F.W. Walbank in Proceedings of the British Academy 69 , 595-610.
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