Ronald J. Mellor (born September 30, 1940) is a distinguished professor of history at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

. His area of research has been ancient religion and Roman historiography, where he has published a number of books. Mellor attended Regis High School in New York City. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in 1968. His previous teaching posts include

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. He has been a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at

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, the Humanities Research Centre of the

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, the

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, and the

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in Princeton, New Jersey.

Bibliography

* Ronald Mellor, "θΕΑ ΡΩΜΗ: The Worship of the Goddess Roma in the Greek World" Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1975 * Ronald Mellor, "From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome" Michigan State Univ. Press 1989 * Ronald Mellor, "Tacitus" Routledge 1992 * Ronald Mellor, "Tacitus: The Classical Tradition" Garland Books/Routledge 1995 * Ronald Mellor, "The Roman Historians" Routledge 1999 * Ronald Mellor, "Text and Tradition: Studies in Greek History and Historiography in Honor of Mortimer Chambers" (with L. Tritle) 1999 Regina Books * Ronald Mellor, "The Ancient Roman World" (with Marni McGee) Oxford University Press 2004 * Ronald Mellor, "The World in Ancient Times: Primary Sources and Reference Volumes" (with Amanda Podany) Oxford University Press 2005 * Ronald Mellor, "Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire" St Martin's Press 2005 * Ronald Mellor, "Tacitus' Annals" Oxford University Press 2010 * Ronald Mellor, "The Historians of Ancient World" Routledge 1997 (1st ed.); 2004 (expanded 2nd ed.); 2012 (expanded 3rd ed.)

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