Judges Announce the Long List for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024
The judging panel for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually for a book about Greece, has agreed a long list of 24 books for the competition in 2024.
Out of 53 books submitted for the Award, the judges selected 24 to form their long list. The list, which covers books published globally in English in 2023, includes books on history, biography, archaeology, philosophy and classical reception, plus novels, poetry and literary translation. The books selected span Hellenic experience from antiquity until today.
The full long list of 24 titles is attached.
The Award Ceremony for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024 is scheduled to be held in the Great Hall of King’s College London on Monday 17 June 2024, at 7pm. Details of the award ceremony and of the short list will be announced in due course.
The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is sponsored by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. The value of the prize to the winner is £10,000.
Council of the League
12 January 2024
LONG LIST
SCHOLARLY WRITING
Sarah Clegg, Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi (Head of Zeus)
Islam Issa, Alexandria: The City That Changed the World (Sceptre)
Emily A. Austin, Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life (OUP)
Robin Lane Fox, Homer and His Iliad (Penguin Allen Lane)
Lisa C. Nevett, Ancient Greek Housing (CUP)
Adam Nicolson, How To Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks (Harper Collins)
Robin Osborne, The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Vol. II. Athens and Attica (OUP)
Katherine Pangonis, Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean (Orion Publishing)
James Romm, Demetrius: Sacker of Cities (Yale UP)
Malcolm Schofield, How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems (CUP)
Tony Spawforth, What the Greeks Did For Us (Yale UP)
James Whitley, Knossos: Myth, History and Archaeology (Bloomsbury)
Gabriel Zuchtriegel, The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion and Social Changes in Archaic Greece (CUP)
David Alan Parnell, Belisarius and Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian (OUP)
Peter Sarris, Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (John Murray)
Maurizio Isabella, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions (Princeton UP)
Brook Manville & Josiah Ober, The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (Princeton UP)
CREATIVE WRITING
Homer, trans. by Emily Wilson, The Iliad (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Eli Payne Mandel, The Grid (Carcanet)
Victoria Hislop, The Figurine (Headline)
Irena Karafilly, Arrested Song (Legend)
Dimitra Kotoula, trans. by Maria Nazos, The Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books)
Eleni Kyriacou, The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou (Head of Zeus)
Kostya Tsolakis, Greekling (Nine Arches)