{{Short description|British historian (1903–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=January 2020}} {{Multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=October 2013}} {{no footnotes|date=October 2013}} }}
'''Howard Hayes Scullard''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|FSA|}} (9 February 1903 – 31 March 1983) was a British historian specialising in [[ancient history]], notable for editing the ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'' and for his many published works.
== Life and career == Scullard's father was Herbert Hayes Scullard,<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=SCLT885HH|name=Scullard, Herbert Hayes}}</ref> a minister, and his mother Barbara Louisa Dodds.
Born in [[Bedford, England|Bedford]], England, his early education was at [[Highgate School]], followed by [[St John's College, Cambridge]]. He was a tutor and then [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] at [[New College London]], from 1935 to 1959, when he became Professor of Ancient History at [[King's College London]], retiring in 1970. He nonetheless remained active in retirement and notably wrote chapters for the re-edition of ''[[The Cambridge Ancient History]]'', but his contributions to volumes VII and VIII were published posthumously.<ref>A. E. Astin & F. W. Walbank, ''Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.'', Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. xvi.</ref>
Perhaps his most widely known work is ''From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68'', a text widely used by students studying Rome in the late republic, as well as Rome under the Julio-Claudians.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019|reason=I don't see why this book should mentioned before others, his works on Africanus and Roman Politics are equally famous.}}
== Books == Author: * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1930 }}, a [[Thirlwall Prize]] essay. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 BC |publisher=Methuen |location=London |year=1935 }}, reprinted. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=Roman Politics 220-150 B.C. |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |year=1951 }}. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68 |publisher=Methuen |location=London |year=1959 }}, reprinted. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=Shorter Atlas of the Classical World |publisher=Thomas Nelson & Sons |location=Edinburgh |year=1962 }}. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=The Etruscan Cities and Rome |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |year=1967 }}. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=Scipio Africanus: Soldier and Politician |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |year=1970 }}. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=The Elephant in the Greek and Roman World |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |year=1974 }}. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=Roman Britain: Outpost of the Empire |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |year=1979 }}. * {{citation |last=Scullard |first=Howard Hayes |authorlink=Howard Hayes Scullard |display-authors=0 |title=Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |year=1981 }}.
Editor: * {{citation |author=[[Livy]] |title=[[History of Rome (Livy)|History of Rome]] |volume=Book XXX |location=London |publisher=Metheun }}, 1939, with [[Harold Edgeworth Butler|H.E. Butler]] * {{citation |title=Atlas of the Classical World |publisher=Nelson |location=London |year=1959 }}. * {{citation |title=The Grandeur That Was Rome |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson |location=London |year=1961 }}. * {{citation |title=[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]] |year=1970 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press }}, with [[Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond|N.G.L. Hammond]]. * {{citation |last=Cary |first=Max |authorlink=Max Cary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LyvCwAAQBAJ |title=A History of Rome Down to the Reign of Constantine |date=18 June 1975 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |isbn=9781349024155 |edition=3rd }}, 1975, the 1st edition having come out in 1935.
==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist}} ===Bibliography=== * Necrology by [[F.W. Walbank]] in ''Proceedings of the British Academy'' 69, 595–610. {{Cite web|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/pba-69/scullard-howard-hayes-1903-1983/|title = Scullard, Howard Hayes, 1903-1983}}
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