Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Todd Merlin Compton (born 1952) is an American historian in the fields of Mormon history and Classics.Compton is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived for a number of years in Santa Monica, California. He has served an LDS mission to Ireland. He studied violin with Richard Nibley and has played electric violin with singer-songwriter Mark Davis. In 1982 he completed a master''s degree from Brigham Young University. He later received a Ph.D. from UCLA in Classics (concentrating on Greek and Indo-European mythology) which he taught for a year at USC. He also taught at UCLA and Cal State Northridge. He has been an independent researcher since 1993, drawing a regular income by working as an ADS specialist for a law office.