Matthew Trundle
{{Short description|British-born New Zealand academic (1965–2019)}}
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| birth_name = Matthew Freeman Trundle
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1965|10|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|07|12|1965|10|12|df=y}}
| 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
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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.{{cite web |url=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=ONSBirth84&h=88050020 |title=England & Wales, civil registration birth index, 1916–2007 |year=2008 |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |accessdate=17 July 2019 |url-access=subscription}} He studied at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with joint honours.{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/mtru013 |title=Professor Matthew Trundle |publisher=University of Auckland |accessdate=17 July 2019}} He then completed a Master of Arts in Roman History and a PhD in Greek history at McMaster University in Canada. The title of his doctoral thesis, supervised by Daniel J. Geagan, was The classical Greek mercenary and his relationship to the Greek polis.{{cite thesis |url=https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/13924/1/fulltext.pdf |title=The classical Greek mercenary and his relationship to the Greek polis |first=Matthew Freeman |last=Trundle |type=PhD |date=1996 |publisher=McMaster University |accessdate=17 July 2019}}
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. 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. His research interests were primarily related to ancient Greek economic, social and military history.
His wife, Catherine Trundle, is a member of the Anthropology Programme at Victoria University of Wellington.{{cite web |url=https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1907&L=CLASSICISTS&P=55105 |title=Matthew Trundle |date=14 July 2019 |website=Classicists Archives |publisher=University of Liverpool |accessdate=17 July 2019}} Matthew Trundle died from leukaemia in Wellington on 12 July 2019.{{cite news |url=https://deaths.dompost.co.nz/obituaries/dominion-post-nz/obituary.aspx?n=matthew-trundle&pid=193409508 |title=Matthew Trundle death notice |date=17 July 2019 |work=Dominion Post |accessdate=17 July 2019}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |last=Trundle |first=Matthew |title=Greek mercenaries: from the late archaic to Alexander |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |isbn=0415338123}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Fagan |editor1-first=Garrett G. |editor2-first=Matthew |editor2-last=Trundle |editor1-link=Garrett G. Fagan |title=New perspectives on ancient warfare |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |year=2010 |series=History of Warfare |volume=59 |isbn=978-9004185982}}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Evans |editor-first=Richard J. |title=Mass and elite in the Greek and Roman worlds: from Sparta to late antiquity |year=2017 |series=Acta Classica |volume=7 |chapter=Coinage and democracy: economic redistribution as the basis of democratic Athens |pages=11–20 |first=Matthew |last=Trundle}}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Fagan |editor-first=G.G. |title=The Cambridge World History of Violence |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2020 |chapter=Violence, Law, and Community in Classical Athens. |pages=533–49 |first=Matthew |last=Trundle}}
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Category:Academics from London
Category:British classical scholars
Category:New Zealand classical scholars
Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Category:McMaster University alumni
Category:English emigrants to New Zealand
Category:Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington