Matthew Trundle

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. He studied at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with joint honours. He then completed a Master of Arts in Roman History and a PhD in Greek history at McMaster University in Canada.

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. Matthew Trundle died from leukaemia in Wellington on 12 July 2019.

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