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