The Conington Prize is awarded annually by the
University of Oxford. The cash prize is offered for a dissertation on a subject chosen by the writer and approved by the Board of the
Faculty of Classics
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.
The subject offered cycles through these fields:
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Ancient history,
religion,
art, and
archaeology.
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Ancient philosophy and ideas.
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Classical literature
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,
textual criticism, and
philology.
The prize is open to all members of the university and the
dissertation may be written in English or
Latin. It is named after the English classical scholar
John Conington.
Sources
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Awards and prizes of the University of Oxford