About me

Dr Peter Gainsford

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I am a writer and researcher with a specialisation in Greek antiquity based in Wellington, New Zealand. I have not always been based there — I have done stints in Canada and the UK — but it is my hometown.

My research centres on early Greek epic. I find it engrossing to study how stories about the Trojan War developed over time, ranging from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine era. I have written articles on many aspects of Greek language, literature, and myth; a book, Early Greek Hexameter Poetry (Cambridge, 2015); datasets for research; and, since late 2015, nearly 150 articles on Kiwi Hellenist, which are much more wide-ranging than my print publications.

Currently I’m working on pieces for print publication on the subject of catalogues in early Greek epic.

Publications

Book

Chapters and journal articles

Datasets

Online articles