Archive of Prize-Winning Entries

ASCS Australian Essay Competition

2012

First place: Thomas Wilson (The University of Sydney)
Tois pathêmasin. The subordination of tragedy to comedy in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai and Frogs

2011

First place: Brennan Nicholson (The University of Sydney)
Punctuating Interruption; Interrupting Punctuation. An Investigation of the Interruption at Iliad 1.292

2010

First Place: Harrison Jones (The University of Sydney)
“Oikist cults at Cyrene, Delos and Eretria”

Second Place (equal): Geetanji Arora (The University of Western Australia)
“Lamentations, war and family life: a critical analysis of the lament in Books 6, 22 and 24 of the Iliad”

Second Place (equal):  Kimberley Webb (The University of Western Australia)
“Thucydides’ treatment of Nicias and Alcibiades”

2009 [not available]

2008

First Place: Evan Jewel (Macquarie University)
“Compare and Contrast Satyrs and Centaurs”

Second Place: Brook Dixon (The Australian National University)
“The Poetics of Euripides’ Trojan Women: Unity, Rhetoric and Pathos”