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2023
Claire Bubb, Dissection in Classical Antiquity: A Social and Medical History
Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar, eds., The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes
N. Bryant Kirkland, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception

2022
Deborah Tarn Steiner, Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period
James Uden, Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830
Katharina Volk, The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar

2021
Aileen R. Das, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus
Ellen Oliensis, Loving Writing / Ovid's Amores
Andreas Willi, Origins of the Greek Verb

2020
Paul J. Kosmin, Time and its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
Kelly Shannon-Henderson, Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals
Steven D. Smith, Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture: Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian

2019
Andrew C. Johnston, The Sons of Remus: Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain
Josephine Quinn, In Search of the Phoenicians
Francesca Schironi, The Best of the Grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad

2018
Gil H. Renberg, Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World
Amy Richlin, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy
Harriet I. Flower, The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

2017
James I. Porter, The Sublime in Antiquity
Amy Russell, The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome
Peter T. Struck, Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity

2016
Shadi Bartsch, Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural
Anthony Corbeill, Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
Eleanor Dickey, The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana

2015
Joshua Billings, Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy
Jackie Elliott, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales
Emily Mackil, Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon

2014
Robert L. Fowler, Early Greek Mythography. Vol. 2: Commentary
Edith Hall, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy
Tim Whitmarsh, Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism

2013
Susanna Elm, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church
Richard J. Tarrant, Virgil: Aeneid Book XII
Gareth Williams, The Cosmic Viewpoint. A Study of Seneca’s Natural Questions

2012 - Leslie Kurke, Aesopic Conversations. Read the citation here.

2011 - Lawrence Kim, Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature. Read the citation here.

2010 - John F. Miller, Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets. Read the citation here.

2009 - Julia Haig Gaisser, The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass

2008 - David Konstan, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

2007 - Peter Struck, Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts

2006 - Kristina Milnor, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life

2005 - Timothy Peter Wiseman, The Myths of Rome

2004 - Raffaella Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind

2003 - Clifford Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire

2002 - Kathleen McCarthy, Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy

2001 - Jeffrey Henderson, Aristophanes, Volumes 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)

2001 - Richard Janko, Philodemos' On Poems

2000 - Kathryn Gutzwiller, Poetic Garlands; Hellenistic Epigrams in Context

1999 - Jonathan M. Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity

1998 - Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics

1997 - Donald J. Mastronarde, Euripides: Phoenissae

1996 - Alan Cameron, The Greek Anthology from Meleager to Planudes

1995 - Peter White, Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome

1994 - Gregory Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

1993 - Susan Treggiari, Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges From the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian

1992 - Heinrich von Staden, Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria

1991 - Robert A. Kaster, Guardians of Language. The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity

1990 - Martin Ostwald, From Popular Sovereignty to Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens

1989 - Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Power of the People

1988 - John J. Winkler, Auctor & Actor, A Narratological Reading of Apuleius' The Golden Ass

1987 - R. J. A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome

1986 - William C. Scott, Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater

1985 - Howard Jacobson, The Exagoge of Ezekiel

1984 - Timothy D. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (and) The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine

1983 - Bruce W. Frier, Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome

1982 - Gregory Nagy, Best of the Achaeans

1981 - John H. Finley, Homer's Odyssey

1980 - Emily T. Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry

1979 - Leendert G. Westerink, 2 volume study of the Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo

1978 - D. R. Shackleton-Bailey, 2 volume edition of Cicero's Epistulae ad Familiares

1977 - Harold Cherniss, Plutarch's Moralia XIII, Parts I and II (Loeb Classical Library)

1976 - W. Kendrick Pritchett, The Greek State at War

1975 - George A. Kennedy, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World

1974 - Charles Edson, Inscriptiones Graecae, Vol. X, Pars II, Facs. I (Inscriptiones Thessalonicae et viciniae)

1973 - Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Blacks in Antiquity

1972 - Friedrich Solmsen, Hesiodi Theogonia Opera et Dies Scutum

1971 - Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam, Vergil's Pastoral Art

1970 - Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, The Calendar of the Roman Republic

1969 - Helen Florence North, Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature

1968 - Edward Togo Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites

1967 - George Max Antony Grube, The Greek and Roman Critics

1966 - Brooks Otis, Vergil: A Study in Civilized Poetry

1965 - Herbert Strainge Long, Diogenis Laertii Vitae Philosophorum

1964 - Louise Adams Holland, Janus and the Bridge

1963 - Gilbert Highet, The Anatomy of Satire

1962 - Lily Ross Taylor, The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic

1961 - James Wilson Poultney, The Bronze Tables of Iguvium

1960 - Alexander Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides

1959 - Gordon Macdonald Kirkwood, A Study of Sophoclean Drama

1958 - Berthold Louis Ullman, Studies in the Italian Renaissance

1957 - Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen, Representative Government in Greek and Roman History

1956 - Kurt von Fritz, The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity

1955 - Ben Edwin Perry, Aesopica

1954 - Benjamin Dean Merrit, Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, Malcolm McGregor, The Athenian Tribute Lists

1953 - Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic

1952 - Cedric Whitman, Sophocles, A Study of Heroic Humanism

1951 - David Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor