The Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit is an annual prize for outstanding publications in the field of classics given by the Society for Classical Studies (SCS).[1]
The Goodwin Award is named in honor of Charles Jaques Goodwin (1866–1935), a long-time member and benefactor of the SCS (then the American Philological Association).[2] Award recipients are chosen by a five-member elected committee and presented at the Society's annual meeting. Prior to the creation of the Raffaella Cribiore Award in 2025, they were the only prizes for books given by the Society.[1]
Works eligible for the award must be published by a member of the Society during the preceding three years. From 1951 until 2013, the award had a single recipient; since then, the SCS Board of Directors mandated the Committee make three awards each year.[1] The Goodwin Award is considered among the most prestigious accolades in classical studies and has had only one repeat winner, Peter T. Struck. Its inaugural recipient was David Magie of Princeton University in 1951.[3]
List of Goodwin Award winners
edit1951–2012
edit| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | David Magie | Roman Rule in Asia Minor |
| 1952 | Cedric Whitman | Sophocles, A Study of Heroic Humanism |
| 1953 | Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton | The Magistrates of the Roman Republic |
| 1954 | Benjamin Dean Meritt; Henry Theodore Wade-Gery; Malcolm McGregor | The Athenian Tribute Lists |
| 1955 | Ben Edwin Perry | Aesopica |
| 1956 | Kurt von Fritz | The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity |
| 1957 | Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen | Representative Government in Greek and Roman History |
| 1958 | Berthold Louis Ullman | Studies in the Italian Renaissance |
| 1959 | Gordon Macdonald Kirkwood | A Study of Sophoclean Drama |
| 1960 | Alexander Turyn | The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides |
| 1961 | James Wilson Poultney | The Bronze Tables of Iguvium |
| 1962 | Lily Ross Taylor | The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic |
| 1963 | Gilbert Highet | The Anatomy of Satire |
| 1964 | Louise Adams Holland | Janus and the Bridge |
| 1965 | Herbert Strainge Long | Diogenis Laertii Vitae Philosophorum |
| 1966 | Brooks Otis | Vergil: A Study in Civilized Poetry |
| 1967 | George Max Antony Grube | The Greek and Roman Critics |
| 1968 | Edward Togo Salmon | Samnium and the Samnites |
| 1969 | Helen Florence North | Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature |
| 1970 | Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels | The Calendar of the Roman Republic |
| 1971 | Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam | Vergil’s Pastoral Art |
| 1972 | Friedrich Solmsen | Hesiodi Theogonia Opera et Dies Scutum |
| 1973 | Frank M. Snowden, Jr. | Blacks in Antiquity |
| 1974 | Charles Edson | Inscriptiones Graecae, Vol. X, Pars II, Facs. I (Inscriptiones Thessalonicae et Viciniae) |
| 1975 | George A. Kennedy | The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World |
| 1976 | William K. Pritchett | The Greek State at War |
| 1977 | Harold Cherniss | Plutarch’s Moralia XIII, Parts I & II (Loeb) |
| 1978 | D. R. Shackleton Bailey | Cicero’s Epistulae ad Familiares, Vols. I–II |
| 1979 | Leendert G. Westerink | Greek Commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo, 2 vols. |
| 1980 | Emily Vermeule | Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry |
| 1981 | John H. Finley | Homer’s Odyssey |
| 1982 | Gregory Nagy | Best of the Achaeans |
| 1983 | Bruce W. Frier | Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome |
| 1984 | Timothy D. Barnes | Constantine and Eusebius / The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine |
| 1985 | Howard Jacobson | The Exagoge of Ezekiel |
| 1986 | William C. Scott | Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater |
| 1987 | R. J. A. Talbert | The Senate of Imperial Rome |
| 1988 | John J. Winkler | Auctor & Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass |
| 1989 | Josiah Ober | Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Power of the People |
| 1990 | Martin Ostwald | From Popular Sovereignty to Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens |
| 1991 | Robert A. Kaster | Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity |
| 1992 | Heinrich von Staden | Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria |
| 1993 | Susan Treggiari | Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges From the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian |
| 1994 | Gregory Vlastos | Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher |
| 1995 | Peter White | Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome |
| 1996 | Alan Cameron | The Greek Anthology from Meleager to Planudes |
| 1997 | Donald J. Mastronarde | Euripides: Phoenissae |
| 1998 | Calvert Watkins | How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics |
| 1999 | Jonathan M. Hall | Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity |
| 2000 | Kathryn Gutzwiller | Poetic Garlands; Hellenistic Epigrams in Context |
| 2001 | Jeffrey Henderson | Aristophanes, Volumes 1-2 (Loeb) |
| 2001 | Richard Janko | Philodemus’ On Poems |
| 2002 | Kathleen McCarthy | Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy |
| 2003 | Clifford Ando | Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire |
| 2004 | Raffaella Cribiore | Gymnastics of the Mind |
| 2005 | Timothy Peter Wiseman | The Myths of Rome |
| 2006 | Kristina Milnor | Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life |
| 2007 | Peter Struck | Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts |
| 2008 | David Konstan | The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature |
| 2009 | Julia Haig Gaisser | The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass |
| 2010 | John F. Miller | Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets |
| 2011 | Lawrence Kim | Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature |
| 2012 | Leslie Kurke | Aesopic Conversations |
2013–Present
edit| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2023 | Claire Bubb | Dissection in Classical Antiquity: A Social and Medical History |
| Christopher A. Faraone & Sofía Torallas Tovar | The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes | |
| N. Bryant Kirkland | Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception | |
| 2024 | Kassandra J. Miller | Time and Ancient Medicine. How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science |
| Colin Webster | Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine | |
| Naomi Weiss | Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama | |
| 2025 | James Ker | The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome |
| Andrew Laird | Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico | |
| Julia Mebane | The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought |
See also
edit- AJP Best Article Prize, American Journal of Philology
- Kenyon Medal, British Academy
- Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
- Sather Professorship of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley
References
edit- 1 2 3 "The Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ "GOODWIN, Charles Jaques". Database of Classical Scholar. Rutgers–New Brunswick. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ "List of Previous Goodwin Award Winners". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 20 November 2025.