Associate Professor
Head of Programme
Contact
Office 5N2, Arts Building
Email gwynaeth.mcintyre@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
2010: PhD, University of St Andrews
2006: MA, York University
2004: BA, University of Victoria, Canada
Background and research interests
As a broadly-trained ancient historian, Gwynaeth's research focuses on political, social, and religious history of the ancient world and the ways in which mythology and religion define particular communities or groups of communities.
She has most recently published a book (2016) and a dedicated journal volume (2019) on the worship of the Roman imperial family and a co-edited a volume on the Roman mythological figure, Anna Perenna. Her on-going research focuses specifically on the ways in which mythology and religion were used by members of the Roman imperial family to justify and legitimize their power.
She is also currently working with the Otago Museum to digitise and increase access to their Roman coin collection.
Teaching
2024
- CLAS 105 Greek Mythology
- CLAS 109 Roman Social History: Slaves, Gladiators, Prostitutes
- CLAS 344 From Augustus to Nero: Scandal and Intrigue in Imperial Rome
- CLAS 444 From Augustus to Nero: Advanced Studies
Has also taught
- CLAS 341 After Alexander: the Struggle and the Chaos
- CLAS 345 Tales of Troy: from Homer to Hollywood
- CLAS 346 Power and Politics in Roman and Modern Times
- CLAS 441 Advanced Studies in Alexander's Successors
- LATN 111 Introductory Latin 1
- LATN 112 Introductory Latin 2
- LATN 211 Intermediate Latin
Areas of research supervision
- Roman history
- Roman religion
- Greek and Roman myth
- Roman coinage