From 2004 – Prizes awarded for books published in English anywhere in the world in the previous year

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2018	House of Names	ColmTóibín	Penguin/Viking
2018	Classical Greek Oligarchy	Matthew Simonton	Princeton University Press
2017	Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism	Marc Domingo Gygax	CUP
2016	Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography	Sharon Gerstel	CUP
2015	The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science	Armand M. Leroi	Bloomsbury Publishing
2014	Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution	Roderick Beaton	CUP
2013	Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy	Simon Goldhill	OUP
2012	The Maeander Valley	Peter Thonemann	CUP
2011	Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean	Molly Greene	Princeton University Press
	Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century	Emily Greenwood	OUP
2010	Cosmos, Life and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village	Juliet du Boulay	Denise Harvey Publishers
2009	Greece: A Jewish History	Prof. K. E. Fleming	Princeton University Press
2008	The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury	Imogen Grundon	Libri Publications
2007	Twice a Stranger	Bruce Clark	Granta Books
	The British and the Hellenes	Prof. Robert Holland and Dr Diana Markides	OUP
2006	The Classical World	Prof. Robin Lane Fox	Allen Lane
	Persian Fire	Tom Harrison	Time Warner Book Group
2005	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews	Mark Mazower	Harper Collins
2004	George Seferis - Waiting for the Angel - A Biography	Prof. Roderick Beaton	Yale University Press

 

1986-2003: Prizes for books published in the UK in the previous year

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2003	The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks re-created their Mythical Past	Sir John Boardman	Thames and Hudson
2002	The Archaeology of Ancient Greece	James Whitley	CUP
2001	An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades	Dr Cyprian Broodbank	CUP
2000	The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History	Dr Reviel Netz	CUP
	Celebrating Homer's Landscapes	Prof J V Luce	Yale University Press
1999	Dictionary of Classical Mythology	Dr Jenny March	Cassell
	Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England 1830-1960	Christopher Stray	Clarendon Press Oxford
	Lawrence Durrell: a Biography	Ian MacNiven	Faber & Faber
1998	Dinner with Persephone	Patricia Storace	Granta Books
	Painting and the Soul: Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds	Prof Robin Cormack	Reaktion Books
	The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth	Dr Martin West	Clarendon Press Oxford
	Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War	George Cawkwell	Routledge
1997	Understanding Greek Sculpture: Ancient Meanings Modern Readings	Nigel Spivey	Thames and Hudson
	A History of Greek-owned Shipping: the Making of an International Tramp Fleet 1830 to the present day	Gelina Harlaftis	Routledge
	The Making of the Cretan Landscape,	Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody	Manchester University Press
	Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece	Andrew Dalby	Routledge
1996	Monks and Laymen in Byzantium 843-1118	Dr Rosemary Morris	CUP
	The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity	Sir John Boardman	Thames and Hudson
1995	An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature	Roderick Beaton	OUP
1994	The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos 1143-1180	Paul Magdalino	CUP
1993	A Concise History of Greece	Richard Clogg	CUP
1992	Crete: the Battle and the Resistance	Antony Beevor	John Murray
	Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis	Mark Mazower	OUP
1991	The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones		OUP
1990	Herodotus	John Gould	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1989	Vol 3 History of Macedonia	Nicolas Hammond
	Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church	Rowland J Mainstone	Thames and Hudson
1988	Brigands with a Cause: Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece 1820-1921	John S Koliopoulos	OUP
1987	no award
1986	Travellers in Greece	David Constantine	CUP