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).

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). 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.

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. 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.

List of Goodwin Award winners

1951–2012 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 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 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

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