Academic Appointments


  • Lecturer, Classics

Professional Education


  • Ph.D., Harvard University, Classical Philology and Comparative Literature (2023)
  • Regular Member Program, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2022)
  • A.M., Harvard University, Classical Philology (2019)
  • M.A., University of Auckland, Ancient History (2016)
  • B.A., University of Auckland, Classics and Mathematics (2013)

2024-25 Courses


All Publications


  • 'Beginning wherever you wish': Sappho, Homer and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's <i>Dictee</i> CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS JOURNAL Johnston, P. G. 2023; 15 (1): 101-129
  • The Women of Thebes as Aeschylean Erinyes: The First Messenger Speech of Euripides' <i>Bacchae</i> GREEK DRAMA V : STUDIES IN THE THEATRE OF THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES BCE Johnston, P. G. edited by Marshall, C. W., Marshall, H. Bloomsbury. 2020: 161-72
  • Rethinking <i>Medea</i> and the <i>Deus ex machina</i> CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY Johnston, P. G. 2019; 114 (1): 125-135

    View details for DOI 10.1086/700920

    View details for Web of Science ID 000453716500008