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)