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The George Grote Prize in Ancient History is an early career academic prize for notable unpublished work by emerging scholars in the field of ancient history.

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The prize, named for historian George Grote, was first awarded in 1982 and has been awarded by the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, every two to three years since. [1] A cash prize of £3000 is funded by an endowment left by Victor Ehrenberg.

Recipients

Winners, who are selected based on a thesis on a subject of their own choosing, must be members of a University of London institution and have completed no more than four years of full-time research (or the part-time equivalent). Entries are judged by a committee of teachers of ancient history within the University of London. [2] Winners are announced in the German review journal Gnomon. [3]

Past winners have included Robin Osborne, Armand D'Angour and Charles Crowther. [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. Williams, Lisa (1990). The Grant Register, 1991-1993. London: Macmillan. p. 342.
  2. https://ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/award-prizes Archived 8 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine The Institute of Classical Studies: Awards and Prizes. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  3. "George Grote Prize in Ancient History". Gnomon. 54 (3): 320. 1982. JSTOR   27688096.
  4. Osborne, Robin. Demos: The Discovery of Classical Attika. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xii and 15-42.
  5. d'Angour, Armand J. (1999). "Archinus, Eucleides and the Reform of the Athenian Alphabet". Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 43: 109–130. doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.1999.tb00481.x. JSTOR   43646755.
  6. Crowther, Charles (1995). "Iasos in the Second Century Bc III: Foreign Judges from Priene". Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 40: 91–138. doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.1995.tb00467.x.