The judging panel for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually for a book about Greece, has agreed a long list of 24 books for the competition in 2023. Out of 47 books submitted for the Award, the judges selected 24 to form their long list. The list, which coversbooks published globally in English in 2022, includes books on history, biography, literature and philosophy, plus novels, poetry and literary translation. The books selected span Hellenic experience from antiquity until today.

The full long list of 24 titles is attached.

The Award Ceremony for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023 is scheduled to be held in theGreat Hall of King’s College London on Monday 19 June 2023, at 7pm. Details of the award ceremony and ofthe short list will be announced in due course.

The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is sponsored by the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation andthe A.G. Leventis Foundation. The value of the prize to the winner is £10,000.
Council of the League
10 January 2023

.

NOTES FOR EDITORS:
Since 1986, the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award has rewarded annually the best book published in the previous year in English about Greece or on a Greek subject. The Award is open to scholarly and creative books and to translations into English of Greek literary works.
The judges for the Award in 2023 are:
Prof. Peter Frankopan (chair)
Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Prof. Judith Mossman
Dr Oliver Thomas
Dr Sofka Zinovieff

Keep up with our news on: www.runcimanaward.org and www.anglohellenicleague.org.
Enquiries to: John Kittmer (Award Administrator) runciman@anglohellenicleague.org

Title	Author	Press	Period	Genre
SCHOLARLY BOOKS
Nafplio: Biography of a Greek Town	Matt Stanley	Aetos Press	Diachronic	History
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher	Laura Beatty	Atlantic Books	Antiquity	History of Philosophy
The Greek Myths that Shape the Way We Think	Richard Buxton	Thames & Hudson	Antiquity	Mythology / Literature
Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity	Sarah F. Derbew	CUP	Antiquity	Literature /Art History /Anthropology
Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception	N. Bryant Kirkland	OUP	Antiquity	History
The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture	Jason König	Princeton UP	Antiquity	Cultural History
A New History of Greek Mathematics	Reviel Netz	CUP	Antiquity	History of Ideas
The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World	William St Clair	Open Book Publishers	Antiquity	History / Art
The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman Anatolia	Peter Thonemann	CUP	Antiquity	History /Ethnography
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body	Caroline Vout	Profile	Antiquity	Art History
The Christian Invention of Time:Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity	Simon Goldhill	CUP	Late Antiquity /Byzantium	Literature /History /Cutural Hisory/ Religion
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History	Lucy Parker	OUP	Late Antiquity /Byzantium	History / Religion
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 – 700	Paul Stephenson	Profile	Late Antiquity /Byzantium	History
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars	Daisy Dunn	W&N	Modern	Literature /Biography /History of Scholarship
The Improbable Heroine: Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II Greece	Stylianos Perrakis	De Gruyter	Modern	Biography
Who Saved the Parthenon? A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution	William St Clair	Open Books Publishers	Modern	History
CREATIVE BOOKS / TRANSLATIONS
Stone Blind: Medusa’’s Story	Natalie Haynes	Pan/ Macmillan /Mantle	Antiquity	Fiction
Lion	Conn Iggulden	Penguin	Antiquity	Fiction
A Little Brown Sea	Charles Foster	Fair Acre	Modern	Fiction
Fear of Light	Julietta Harvey	Starhaven	Modern	Fiction
This Afterlife: Selected Poems	A.E. Stallings	Carcanet	Diachronic	Poetry
Imperium	Jay Gao	Carcanet	Antiquity	Poetry
Heritage Aesthetics	Anthony Anaxagorou	Granta Books	Modern	Poetry
Greek Folk Songs	Translator: Joshua Barley	Aiora Press	Diachronic	Translation