Conington Prize

The Conington Prize is awarded annually by the University of Oxford.

The cash prize is offered for a dissertation on a subject chosen by the writer and approved by the Board of the Faculty of Classics. The subject offered cycles through these fields:

• Ancient history, religion, art, and archaeology.
• Ancient philosophy and ideas.
• Classical literature, textual criticism, and philology.

The prize is open to all members of the university and the dissertation may be written in English or Latin.

Sources

• Oxford University Gazette, (recovered 11 September 2006).