The Lawerence Shenfield Prize was established having received a generous bequest from Dr Shenfield. The Lawrence Shenfield Prize has been awarded annually until 2019 to the best undergraduate submission to Pegasus. Winning essays are published in that year’s issue (found here). The runners-up are linked to below.

List of Winners

2009

Winner:

• Chris Davies, “An Epicurean Adoption”

Runners-up:

• Eleanor Davies, “The Fall of the Peisistratids in Thucydides VI”
• Hannah Porter, “Black-Figure vase”

2010

Winner:

• Jack Bullen, “Libertas in Neronian Literature”

Runners-up:

• Chris Davies, “The Resurrection of Marcellus”
• Benni Rodewyk, “Dismemberment in Neronian literature”

2011

Winner:

• Greg Heath-Kelly, “Is Aristophanes an ‘intellectual’ comedian?”

Runners-up:

• Charlotte Simpson, “How do Aeschylus and Tony Harrison adapt the myth of Prometheus in order to appeal to their contemporary audiences?”
• Hannah Porter, “The case of ‘Rhetoric vs. Criticism’: poetic speech on trial”

2012

Winner:

• Marion Osieyo, “Double Jeopardy: Natal-Marital Conflict in Greek Myth and                                      Society”

Runners-up:

• Jolyon Drew, “Looking for ‘the Boxer’ of the Museo della Terme”
• Hannah Oldham, “A short story on Io”

2013

Winner:

• Tom McConnell, “Oral Composition and its Effect on the Intertextuality of the                                       Homeric Poems”

• Jessica Mackenzie, “Is Ovid’s Metamorphoses’ portrayal of women a projection of male fantasy?”
• Ed Sykes, “The Cyclops story in the Odyssey is an exploration of what it means to be civilised.”

• Jack West-Sherring, “What is the Future of Latin?”

• Laurence Crumbie, “The Typicality of Apuleius’ Witches”
• Sangeeta Grantham-Youngs, “Is the Notion of the Poet’s Voice a Useful one for Understanding Aristophanic Comedy?”
• Cressida Travis, “Are Herodotus’ Digressions in Book 1 ‘Irrelevant’?”

• Tom McConnell, “To what extent is Trachiniae a play about overwhelming natural and psychological forces?”

• Beatrice Clegg, “In Quomodo Adolescens, Plutarch’s concern with poetry and paideia is all about power”

• Alex Hithersay, “Ovidian Rome and the Pseudo-Augustan Voice of the Ars Amatoria“

Runner-up:

• Dominic Hyde, “To what extent and in what ways were the achievements of Alexander built on those of his father Philip?” [in issue]

• Louisa Pannifer, “Explore the ways in which Amphitruo reflects the context in which it was written: The Role of the Roman Door”

• Emily Lane, “Are the mistresses of elegy ever more than metaphors for the poetic projects and/or political interest of their authors?”