Norma Miller Essay Prize

Recipients:

Winners in the CLLI 100/AHCL 150/ 2300 competition:

2009 (Photo of 2009 winners as well as,

           winner of DFR Page Prize in Latin)

Tonya Di Ilio

"Political Commentary in Aristophanes"

2008 (Photo of 2008 winners)

Juliana Will

“A Discussion of Euripides’ lost Hippolytus

Honourable Mention

Sarah Warren

"Dionysus, Athens and Social Commentary in The Bacchae and

The Frogs.

2007 (Photo of 2007 winners)

Ian McIntyre

"Electra's Evolution from Aeschylus to Sophocles and Euripides"

Honourable Mention

Cassandra Jasinski

"Politics and Family Matters: The Conflict Between the Oikos and the Polis in Sophocles' Antigone, Aeschylus' The Eumenides, and Euripides' Electra"

2006 (Photo of 2006 winners)
Barbara Smith,
"Cassandra: Captive, Courageous, and Controversial"

2005
Sarah Mumford,
“The Duality of Masculinity in Ancient Greece”

2004
Rachel Parent,
“Flowing in Reverse: Women’s Roles in Euripidean Drama”

2003
James White,
“A Comparative Study of Madness in Ajax, Herakles, and Bacchae

2002
Rebecca Hayward,
“’Honouring My Brother:’ Antigone’s Motivation for Burying Polyneices”

 

Winners in the Roman History competition:

2009 (Photo of 2009 winners)

Michelle Irvine-Sanders

"Sepphoris' Eirenopolis' Coin Issue of 67/68 CE as Part of Vespasian's Pax Propaganda"

Honourable Mention

Adam Hough

"Julian and the Battle of Strasbourg"

2008

Adrienne Swinamer

“Morale and Motivation in the Late Roman Army”

2007

Thomas Kessler

"The success of Christianity: luck, practice and doctrine"

2006
Matt Hicks
"Agrippa Postumus and the Augustan Succession Set-up"

2005

Francesca Small,
“In Defense of Augustus: The Myth of Censorship and Propaganda in the Augustan Literary Circle”

2004
Maria-Anna Huber,
“Female Persuasion: Aristocratic women and their role in the Conversion from paganism to Christianity during the fourth century CE”

2003
Andrew Todd,
“Was Publius Clodius Pulcher Working for Himself?”

2002
Karen Acton,
“The Provincial Cults of Emperor Worship from Augustus to Trajan: Strategy of Centralization of Local Phenomena”

 

Winners in the 400-Level competition:

2009 (Photo of 2009 Winners)

Christa Falconer

"Secondary State Formation in Mycenaean Greece"

2008

No Winner

2007

Brian Bertosa

"Did Improvements in Equipment Account for Iphicrates' Victory at Lechaeum in 390 BC?"

2006
Cindy Ellen Morgan,
"The Role of Feasting in the Maintenance of Hierarchical Power in Mycenaean Palatial Society"

2005
Melody McIntyre,
“Domitian: A Defence Against the Distortions of Time and Truth”

2004
Karen Acton,
“The Characterisation of Cupid in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

2003
Karen Acton,
Vae! Puto deus fio: The divi of the early first century CE”

2002
Aaron Puley,
“Primordia Romana: Correlating Archaeology with Tradition”