John Melville-Jones is almost an honorary Greek.
The Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History works in the area of ancient Greek Numismatics (and is Patron of the Perth Numismatic Society). He has published a variety of material relating to ancient Greek and Latin texts which provide information about coinage, and its use in the ancient world.
For his work in these areas he has recently received two Greek awards, the Aristotle Award (1999) and the Onassis Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar (2002). He is working this year in the State Archives in Venice as a guest of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, collecting material which documents the relationship between Venice and Constantinople in the 15th century.
He is also President of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, with an interest in the later Byzantine empire, particularly its relations with Venice. He will soon publish the second of two volumes of collected sources documenting the Venetian occupation of Thessalonica in 1423-1430.
A/Professor Melville-Jones currently supervises two PhD students. One is translating and writing a commentary on a Byzantine historian of the 13th century AD. The other is studying the effects of the political processes and events of the first two centuries AD on the upper-class Romans who embraced the Stoic philosophy.
