The Lawrence Shenfield Prize

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:

2011

Winner:

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

Runners-up:

2012

Winner:

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

Runners-up:

2013

Winner:

  • Tom McConnell, “Oral Composition and its Effect on the Intertextuality of the                                       Homeric Poems”
Runners-up:
2014
Winner:
  • Jack West-Sherring, “What is the Future of Latin?”
 Runners-up:
2015
Winner:
  • Tom McConnell, “To what extent is Trachiniae a play about overwhelming natural and psychological forces?”
2016 
Winner:
  • Beatrice Clegg, “In Quomodo Adolescens, Plutarch’s concern with poetry and paideia is all about power”
2018
Winner:
  • 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]
2019
Winner:
  • Louisa Pannifer, “Explore the ways in which Amphitruo reflects the context in which it was written: The Role of the Roman Door”
Runner-up:

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