About the prize

Call for submissions for the 2025 International Hellenic Prize

Now in its 29th year, the Prize will be awarded once more to an original work, first published in 2025, written in (or translated into) English on a subject relating to, or inspired by, Hellenic civilization, culture, history or literature.

Subjects have always been unrestricted and cover the full spectrum of Hellenism from ancient to modern times. Since its inception in 1996 the Prize has been awarded to books on archaeology, architecture, art, classics, history, literary criticism, religion, social studies, as well as fiction. The LHP seeks to recognize works of originality and excellence in any of these fields which appeal to the educated general reader.

 The bursary of the Prize has been 10,000 GBP since inception.

Over one hundred books are submitted each year and every effort is made to ensure that all important publications in English on Hellenism and Greece are taken into consideration. The winning shortlisted titles are often translated into Greek and published in Greece, thus completing the Anglo-Hellenic cultural objectives which the International Hellenic Prize was founded to support.

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2024 Winner

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Many congratulations to this year's winner, Edith Hall, for her compelling and insightful reading of Greek tragedies, 

Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks and Me

published by Yale University Press. Edith Hall is an award-winning classicist, Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. We are very proud to award her the 2024 Prize.

Several of Edith Hall's other publications have been shortlisted for the International Hellenic Prize in previous years: 

Aristotle's Way: Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life (2018) 

The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped The Modern World (2015) 

Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy (2013)

Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (2010)

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey (2008)

Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914, co-authored with Fiona Macintosh (runner-up, 2005)

2024 Shortlist

Adjudicating Committee