From 2004 – Prizes awarded for books published in English anywhere in the world in the previous year
Year | Title | Author | Publisher |
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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 |
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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 |