Gildersleeve Prize

The Gildersleeve Prize is an annual award of $1,000 to the author of "the best article of the year" published in the American Journal of Philology. It is awarded by The Johns Hopkins University Press and is named after the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve who founded the journal. As of 2018, the prize was renamed the AJP Best Article Prize.

List of Winners YearAuthorArticle1997Carol Poster1998Ruth ScodelBardic Performance and Oral Tradition in Homer1999Lisa Kallet2000William A. JohnsonToward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity2001Stephen M. Beall2002Zachary P. BilesIntertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes2003Gwendolyn Compton-Engle2004Kathryn GutzwillerSeeing Thought: Timomachus' Medea and Ecphrastic Epigram2005Charles C. ChiassonMyth, Ritual, and Authorial Control in Herodotus' Story of Cleobis and Biton (Hist. 1.31)2006David SiderThe New Simonides and the Question of Historical Elegy2007Timothy O'Sullivan2008Judith FletcherA Trickster's Oath in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes2009Randy PogorzelskiThe Reassurance of Fratricide in the Aeneid2010Michael SquireMaking Myron's Cow Moo? Ecphrastic Epigram and the Poetics of Simulation20112012Rachel Ahern KnudsenPoetic Speakers, Sophistic Words2013James E. G. ZetzelA Contract on Ameria: Law and Legality in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino2014William Josiah Edwards DavisTerence Interrupted: Literary Biography and the Reception of the Terentian Canon2015Matt CohnTimokles Satyrographos and the Abusive Satyr Play20162017Max LeventhalEratosthenes’ Letter to Ptolemy: The Literary Mechanics of Empire2018Christopher B. KrebsThe World’s Measure: Caesar’s Geographies of Gallia and Britannia in Their Contexts and as Evidence of His World Map2019Ella HaselswerdtSound and the Sublime in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation2020James UdenThe Margins of Satire: Suetonius, Satura, and Scholarly Outsiders in Ancient Rome2021Erika ValdiviesoDissecting a Forgery2022Rosa AndújarPhilological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s La Odilea 2023Chiara GrafThe Pleasures of Flattery and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Seneca’s Natural Questions (4a Praef.) 2024Lewis WebbSpectatissima Femina: Female Visibility and Religion in Urban Spaces in Republican Rome

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