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Gwynaeth McIntyre 2021 imageAssociate 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

Publications

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. (2022). Rome, history (political, military, administrative), from Augustus to the Antonines (31 BCE-192 CE). In T. Whitmarsh (Ed.), Oxford classical dictionary. (5th [Online] ed.) Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.7130

McIntyre, G. (2023). Making and breaking emperors: The cohors praetoria and the transition of imperial power. In M. Hebblewhite & C. Whately (Eds.), Brill's companion to bodyguards in the ancient Mediterranean. (pp. 202-222). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004527683_011

Schultz, C. E., & McIntyre, G. (2023). A re-evaluation of the so-called Fulvia coinage. Historia, 72(1), 58-85. doi: 10.25162/HISTORIA-2023-0003

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