Classics and Ancient History

Professor John Melville-Jones

MA, DipClassArch Cantab., PhD W.Aust., FRNS, FAHA

Winthrop Professor

Room: Arts Building, 2.42
Telephone: (61 8) 6488 2164
Email: jrmelvil@cyllene.uwa.edu.au





Research interests

Ancient coinage, Byzantine and Venetian historiography

Select Publications

Nicol� Barbaro, Diary of the Siege of Constantinople (translated from Venetian), New York 1969.

The Siege of Constantinople: Seven Contemporary Accounts (Amsterdam 1972)

A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins (London 1986)

Eustathios of Thessaloniki: The Capture of Thessaloniki (=Byzantina Australiensia VIII), Canberra 1988

A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins (London 1990)

Testimonia Numaria Volume I (London 1993); Volume II 2007

The Morosini Codex Vol. I (with Michele Pietro Ghezzo and Andrea Rizzi), Padua 1999; Vol II 2001; Vol III (2005)

Venice and Thessalonica 1423-1430: the Venetian Documents, Padua 2002; The Greek Accounts, Padua 2006.

Current research

Preparation of a third volume in the Testimonia Numaria series, entitled Testimonia Numaria Romana, completion of a book on Venice and Constantinople 1450-1455.