Rhakotis Prizes

Rhakotis celebrates and analyses the classics beyond the classics. It is a magazine exploring cultural reception beyond the Greeks and Romans and the complex societies and cultures of the Ancient World.

Winners by category

Year	Book	Exhibition	Legacy
2023	Queens of a Fallen World by Kate Cooper (Winner) Cleopatra’s Daughter by Jane Draycott (Runner up)	Making History: The Ceramic Work of Simon Pettet at Dennis Severs’ House, London	Mary Renault
2022	Mummified by Angela Stienne (Winner) Isis in a Global Empire by Lindsey Mazurek (Runner up)	Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy at the Whitechapel Gallery, London	John Cowper Powys
2021	Calling out to Isis by Solange Ashby (Winner) The Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden (Runner up)	Cultured Canines by Allison Ksiazkiewicz and Attic Black | Thetis Authentics at the Ashmolean, Oxford	Pablo Bronstein
2020	A People’s History of Classics by Edith Hall and Henry Stead (Winner) Square Haunting by Francesca Wade (Runner up)	Once Upon a Time and Now, Online	Robert Graves

Winners by year

• 2020 Rhakotis Prize
• 2019 Rhakotis Prize
• 2018 Rhakotis Prize
• 2017 Rhakotis Prize

About the prize

The Rhakotis Prize is unique in crediting and rewarding our award panel more than the winners. The panelists enjoy a heavy meal followed by a discussion over cigars in one of London’s finest restaurants. The Rhakotis Award Laureates receive the glory and recognition of winning one of the most prestigious awards in the field of the classics beyond the classics (formerly Graeco-Roman Egypt).