Contact
Office 5N4, Arts Building
Tel +64 3 479 8710
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
- CLAS105: Greek Mythology
- CLAS345: Tales of Troy: from Homer to Hollywood
- CLAS330: Special Topic: Elections in Roman and Modern Times
- LATN112: Introductory Latin 2
- LATN211: Intermediate Latin
- CLAS344: From Augustus to Nero: Scandal and Intrigue in Imperial Rome
- CLAS444: From Augustus to Nero: Advanced Studies
Areas of research supervision
- Roman history
- Roman religion
- Greek and Roman myth
- Roman coinage
Publications
McIntyre, G. (2016). A family of gods: The worship of the imperial family in the Latin West. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 179p.
McIntyre, G. (2019). Imperial cult. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 88p. doi: 10.1163/9789004398375_002
McIntyre, G., & McCallum, S. (Eds.). (2019). Uncovering Anna Perenna: A focused study of Roman myth and culture. London, UK: Bloomsbury, 256p.
McIntyre, G. (2018). Camillus as Numa: religion in Livy’s refoundation narratives. Journal of Ancient History, 6(1), 63-79. doi: 10.1515/jah-2017-0011
McIntyre, G. (2018). Maxentius, the Dioscuri, and the legitimisation of imperial power. Antichthon, 52, 161-180. doi: 10.1017/ann.2018.2
Other Research Output
McIntyre, G. (2020, March). Why ancient elections are relevant. Newsroom. Retrieved from https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/2020/03/04/1065996/why-ancient-elections-are-relevant?
Authored Book - Research
McIntyre, G. (2019). Imperial cult. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 88p. doi: 10.1163/9789004398375_002
McIntyre, G. (2016). A family of gods: The worship of the imperial family in the Latin West. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 179p.
Edited Book - Research
McIntyre, G., & McCallum, S. (Eds.). (2019). Uncovering Anna Perenna: A focused study of Roman myth and culture. London, UK: Bloomsbury, 256p.
Chapter in Book - Research
McIntyre, G. (2019). Not just another fertility goddess: Searching for Anna in art. In G. McIntyre & S. McCallum (Eds.), Uncovering Anna Perenna: A focused study of Roman myth and culture. (pp. 54-67). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Gardner, C. A. M., McIntyre, G., Solberg, K., & Tweten, L. (2018). Looks like we made it, but are we sustaining digital scholarship? In J. Sayers (Ed.), Making things and drawing boundaries: Experiments in the digital humanities. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
McIntyre, G. (2017). Uniting the army: The use of rituals commemorating Germanicus to create an imperial identity. In W. Vanacker & A. Zuiderhoek (Eds.), Imperial identities in the Roman world. (pp. 78-92). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Journal - Research Article
O'Byrne, C., McIntyre, G., Townsend, S., Schonthal, B., & Shephard, K. (2018). Can ‘pooling teaching tips’ be more than ‘pooling teaching tips’? Tertiary Education & Management, 24(4), 351-361. doi: 10.1080/13583883.2018.1465117
McIntyre, G. (2018). Camillus as Numa: religion in Livy’s refoundation narratives. Journal of Ancient History, 6(1), 63-79. doi: 10.1515/jah-2017-0011
McIntyre, G. (2018). Maxentius, the Dioscuri, and the legitimisation of imperial power. Antichthon, 52, 161-180. doi: 10.1017/ann.2018.2
Tweten, L., McIntyre, G., & Gardner, C. (2016). From stone to screen: Digital revitalization of ancient epigraphy. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 10(1). Retrieved from http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/1/000236/000236.html
McIntyre, G. (2013). Deification as consolation: The divine children of the Roman imperial family. Historia, 62(2), 222-240.
McIntyre, G. (2010). Constructing a family: Representations of the women of the Roman imperial family. Acta Patristica et Byzantina, 21(2), 109-120.
Journal - Research Other
McIntyre, G. (2019). [Review of the book Domina: The women who made imperial Rome]. Ancient History Bulletin, 9, 4-6. [Book Review].
McIntyre, G. (2018). Wrestling with the past [Review of the book Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society]. New Zealand Books, 28(3), 35. [Book Review].
McIntyre, G. (2017). [Review of the book From Jupiter to Christ: On the history of religion in the Roman imperial period]. Classical Review, 67(1), 180-182. doi: 10.1017/s0009840x16002614
McIntyre, G. (2015). [Review of the book Cult places and cult personnel in the Roman Empire]. Classical Review, 65(2), 583-584. doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1500075X
McIntyre, G. (2012). [Review of the book Rome and religion: A cross-disciplinary dialogue on the Imperial cult]. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 6(3). [Book Review].
