Matthew Trundle Explained

Matthew Trundle
Birth Name:	Matthew Freeman Trundle
Birth Date:	12 October 1965
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	Wellington, New Zealand
Discipline:	Classics
Main Interests:	Ancient Greek social, economic and military history
Work Institution:	Glendon College Victoria University of Wellington University of Auckland
Alma Mater:	University of Nottingham (BA) McMaster University (MA, PhD)
Thesis Title:	The classical Greek mercenary and his relationship to the Greek polis
Thesis Url:	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13924
Thesis Year:	1996
Doctoral Advisor:	Daniel J. Geagan

Matthew Freeman Trundle (12 October 1965 – 12 July 2019) was a British-born New Zealand academic. From 1999 until 2012 he was a member of the Classics Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. From 2012 until his death in 2019 he was a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Auckland .

Biography

Born in London, England, in 1965, Trundle was the son of Reginald and Elizabeth (née Sydney) Trundle.^[1] He studied at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with joint honours.^[2] He then completed a Master of Arts in Roman History and a PhD in Greek history at McMaster University in Canada.^[2] The title of his doctoral thesis, supervised by Daniel J. Geagan, was The classical Greek mercenary and his relationship to the Greek polis.^[3]

After a period teaching at Glendon College in Toronto, and carrying out research at excavations in Corinth and Isthmia in Greece, Trundle was appointed as a lecturer in classics at Victoria University of Wellington.^[2] He rose to the rank of associate professor in 2011, before being appointed to a chair in classics and ancient history at the University of Auckland the following year.^[2] His research interests were primarily related to ancient Greek economic, social and military history.^[2]

His wife, Catherine Trundle, is a member of the Anthropology Programme at Victoria University of Wellington.^[4] Matthew Trundle died from leukaemia in Wellington on 12 July 2019.^{[5] [4]}

Selected publications

• Book: Trundle, Matthew . Greek mercenaries: from the late archaic to Alexander . London . Routledge . 2004 . 0415338123.
• Book: Fagan . Garrett G. . Matthew . Trundle . Garrett G. Fagan . New perspectives on ancient warfare . Leiden . Brill . 2010 . History of Warfare . 59 . 978-9004185982.
• Book: Trundle, Matthew . Evans . Richard J. . Mass and elite in the Greek and Roman worlds: from Sparta to late antiquity . 2017 . Acta Classica . 7 . Coinage and democracy: economic redistribution as the basis of democratic Athens . 11–20 .
• Book: Trundle, Matthew . Fagan . G.G. . The Cambridge World History of Violence . Cambridge University Press . 2020 . Violence, Law, and Community in Classical Athens. . 533–49 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: England & Wales, civil registration birth index, 1916–2007 . 2008 . Ancestry.com Operations . 17 July 2019 . subscription.
2. Web site: Professor Matthew Trundle . University of Auckland . 17 July 2019.
3. The classical Greek mercenary and his relationship to the Greek polis . Matthew Freeman . Trundle . PhD . 1996 . McMaster University . 17 July 2019.
4. Web site: Matthew Trundle . 14 July 2019 . Classicists Archives . University of Liverpool . 17 July 2019.
5. News: Matthew Trundle death notice . 17 July 2019 . Dominion Post . 17 July 2019.