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The Gildersleeve Prize is an annual award of $1,000 to the author of "the best article of the year" published in the American Journal of Philology . It is awarded by The Johns Hopkins University Press and is named after the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve who founded the journal. [1] As of 2018, the prize was renamed the AJP Best Article Prize. [2]

Previous winners are:

YearAuthorArticle
1997 Carol Poster [1]
1998 Ruth Scodel Bardic Performance and Oral Tradition in Homer [3]
1999 Lisa Kallet [1]
2000 William A. Johnson Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity [4]
2001 Stephen M. Beall [1]
2002 Zachary P. Biles Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes [5]
2003 Gwendolyn Compton-Engle [1]
2004 Kathryn Gutzwiller Seeing Thought: Timomachus' Medea and Ecphrastic Epigram [6]
2005 Charles C. Chiasson Myth, Ritual, and Authorial Control in Herodotus' Story of Cleobis and Biton (Hist. 1.31) [7]
2006 David Sider [1] The New Simonides and the Question of Historical Elegy
2007 Timothy O'Sullivan [8]
2008 Judith Fletcher A Trickster's Oath in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes [9]
2009 Randy Pogorzelski The Reassurance of Fratricide in the Aeneid [10]
2010 Michael Squire Making Myron's Cow Moo? Ecphrastic Epigram and the Poetics of Simulation [11]
2011
2012 Rachel Ahern Knudsen Poetic Speakers, Sophistic Words [12]
2013 James E. G. Zetzel A Contract on Ameria: Law and Legality in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino [13]
2014 William Josiah Edwards Davis Terence Interrupted: Literary Biography and the Reception of the Terentian Canon [14]
2015 Matt Cohn Timokles Satyrographos and the Abusive Satyr Play [15]
2016
2017 Max Leventhal Eratosthenes’ Letter to Ptolemy: The Literary Mechanics of Empire [16]
2018 Christopher B. Krebs The World’s Measure: Caesar’s Geographies of Gallia and Britannia in Their Contexts and as Evidence of His World Map [17]
2019 Ella Haselswerdt Sound and the Sublime in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation [18]
2020 James Uden The Margins of Satire: Suetonius, Satura, and Scholarly Outsiders in Ancient Rome [19]
2021 Erika Valdivieso Dissecting a Forgery [20]
2022 Rosa Andújar Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s La Odilea [21]
2023Chiara GrafThe Pleasures of Flattery and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Seneca’s Natural Questions (4a Praef.) [22]


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