The International Hellenic Prize

Image shows the invitation to the award ceremony starting at 7pm in Cotsen Hall, American School of Classical Studies in Athens. It also shows the links for in-person and online attendance via Zoom, as available on the IHP website.

If you're interested in attending the IHP award ceremony in Athens on Feb 28th for this year's prizewinner
@edithmayhall.bsky.social, please visit our website to register to attend in person or online - this is not an event to miss!
internationalhellenicprize.org

Deadline today 🚨

The IHP award ceremony is coming up on Saturday 28th Feb, please get in touch (info@internationalhellenicprize.org) to register for attendance, whether virtual or in person. It promises to be a fantastic evening, celebrating this year's prizewinner @edithmayhall.bsky.social - don't miss out!

Greek friends, Philhellenes! If you'd like to attend this event on Sat. Feb. 28 at 1900 in Athens, either in person or virtually, please register. It'll be wonderful to have you with me and the nonpareil Hellenists in the best sense Alicia Stallings and Ioanna Karamanou

Or if you've read something great this year that you think deserves recognition (and matches what we're looking for), let us know about it on here!

Submissions Process — The International Hellenic Prize

If you're an author or a publisher and you have a title that fits our criteria, get in touch! See our submissions page: www.internationalhellenicprize.org/submissions-... or email us: info@internationalhellenicprize.org

We're open for the next round of submissions, looking for original works published in 2025, written in (or translated into) English on a subject relating to, or inspired by, Hellenic civilization, culture, history or literature. Deadline 6 Feb '26! #IHP2025

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Name change announcement! Formerly known as the London Hellenic Prize, from now on we will be the International Hellenic Prize. Everything else will remain unchanged - our award, submissions criteria, and objectives.

Looking forward to a long future of prizegiving!

Professor @edithmayhall.bsky.social, from our Department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded the 2024 International Hellenic Prize for her acclaimed book Facing Down the Furies. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

#TransformativeHumanities @durhamclassics.bsky.social

This is wonderful news. Congratulations to @edithmayhall.bsky.social and @lhellenicprize.bsky.social for this well deserved recognition of a powerful, moving and revelatory book.

We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!

I'm so pleased to be shortlisted for the London Hellenic Book Prize alongside some wonderful other books on the Hellenic world!

Very genuinely surprised to see this: The Strongbox is shortlisted for @lhellenicprize.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social alongside some wonderful books.

We're delighted to announce that @sashadugdale.bsky.social's recent collection The Strongbox has been shortlisted for @lhellenicprize.bsky.social 2025!

Well done to Sasha, and all the other shortlisted poets and publishers! 🎉
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017408...

Stay tuned for the announcement of the winner of the London Hellenic Prize later this month!

Tony Molho's Courage and Compassion: A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece, published by Berghahn Books. @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

Edith Hall's Facing Down the Furies:
Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me, published by Yale University Press. @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Sasha Dugdale's The Strongbox, published by Carcanet. @sashadugdale.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

Alex Christofi's Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of Cyprus, published by Bloomsbury. @christofi.bsky.social @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Christopher Childers' The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, published by Penguin. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

We have a shortlist for this year's LHP! Five exceptional works, each a must-read in its own right. If you're interested in all things Hellenic- the language, literature, or the history- these should hit your 'to read' list asap (unless they're already on it!). Here they are:

Today in Oxford for an event on Aeschylus' Agamemnon partly ro launch my commentary, marking 20th anniversary of the
Archive of Performances conference volume Agamemnon in Performance (free to download on my website
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Cfp: 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival The 3rd Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival will occur 30-31 May. The deadline for submissions is 6 April, 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival (30-31 May 2025).

This is an exciting opportunity for authors to share recently published books on on any area of #LateAntique and #ByzantineStudies (AD ca.300–ca.1500)!

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#byzantium

It’s all Greek The stories of Oedipus, Elektra and their ilk are oh-so-relevant today—provided that new productions do them justice

'It’s all Greek: why theatreland is turning to the classics'

New book arrived. We must save the planet, comrades; Homer can help us a little. Thanks to Tim Whitmarsh for telling me to pay attention to the gods, Katrina Kelly for the title, @rickypo.bsky.social for tree-hugging with me and Heather Gold @yalepress.bsky.social for believing in the project

Alice's Father by John Witheridge | Book review | The TLS To classicists, Henry Liddell’s name is synonymous with the Greek-English lexicon he compiled with Robert Scott, his colleague at Oxford. Between 1834 and

‘I am improving immensely in water transactions...& at cricket dare look at the ball without shutting mine eyes' – Henry Liddell, co-compiler of the Greek-English lexicon, was no sportsman, but boy did he live an interesting life. My review for
@thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

We're nearing 100 candidates for the 2024 LHP, and there are still about seven weeks left to find even more... Always open to hearing about exciting new Eng-lang works/translations with Hellenic/Byzantine themes - send us your favourites and get them on our list!

The London Hellenic Prize. Have you written, read or published a new book about, or inspired by, Greece and in or translated into English? Eligibility includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry or an accessible academic work. @lhellenicprize.bsky.social‬
Submission of 2024 titles runs to February 7th.

The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes The judges for the Booker Prize 2025 are announced, as the prize opens for submissions from publishers

We’re thrilled to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 judging panel.✨

Roddy Doyle will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, @chrispower.bsky.social and Kiley Reid.

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When you do, please let us know- and in the meantime always keen to hear about eligible books!