{"id":10,"date":"2013-06-03T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2013-06-03T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:08:05","slug":"the-lawrence-shenfield-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/the-lawrence-shenfield-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lawrence Shenfield Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\" align=\"left\">The\u00a0<em>Lawerence Shenfield Prize<\/em>\u00a0was established having received a generous bequest from Dr Shenfield. The\u00a0<em>Lawrence Shenfield Prize<\/em>\u00a0has been awarded annually\u00a0until 2019\u00a0to the best undergraduate submission to <em>Pegasus<\/em>. Winning essays are published in that year&#8217;s issue (found <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/back-issues\/\">here<\/a>). The runners-up are linked to below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"left\"><strong>List of Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"left\"><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Winner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Davies, &#8220;An Epicurean Adoption&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Runners-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eleanor Davies, &#8220;The Fall of the Peisistratids in Thucydides VI&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Porter, &#8220;Black-Figure vase&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Winner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Bullen, &#8220;<em>Libertas<\/em>\u00a0in Neronian Literature&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Runners-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chris Davies, The Resurrection of Marcellus (LS Runner-Up, 2010)\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/chris-davies-the-resurrection-of-marcellus-ls-runner-up-2010\/\">Chris Davies, &#8220;The Resurrection of Marcellus&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/benni-rodewyk-dismemberment-in-neronian-literature\/\">Benni Rodewyk, &#8220;Dismemberment in Neronian literature&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Winner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greg Heath-Kelly, &#8220;Is Aristophanes an &#8216;intellectual&#8217; comedian?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Runners-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Charlotte Simpson, Adaptation of the Myth of Prometheus by Aeschylus and Tony Harrison (LS Runner-Up, 2011)\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/charlotte-simpson-adaptation-of-the-myth-of-prometheus-by-aeschylus-and-tony-harrison-ls-runner-up-2011\/\">Charlotte Simpson, &#8220;How do Aeschylus and Tony Harrison adapt the myth of Prometheus in order to appeal to their contemporary audiences?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Hannah Porter, LS Runner-up, 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/hannah-porter-ls-runner-up-2011\/\">Hannah Porter, &#8220;The case of \u2018Rhetoric vs. Criticism\u2019: poetic speech on trial&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Winner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marion Osieyo, &#8220;Double Jeopardy: Natal-Marital Conflict in Greek Myth and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Society&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Runners-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/\/Users\/Crussher\/Desktop\/Pegasus%20Website\/Drew,%20Jolyon%20-%20The%20Boxer.pdf\">Jolyon Drew, &#8220;Looking for &#8216;the Boxer&#8217; of the Museo della Terme&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Hannah Oldham, A Short Story on Io\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/hannah-oldham-a-short-story-on-io\/\">Hannah Oldham, &#8220;A short story on Io&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Winner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom McConnell, &#8220;Oral Composition and its Effect on the Intertextuality of the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Homeric Poems&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\">Runners-up:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/609\/2013\/06\/JessicaMacKenzie.pdf\">Jessica Mackenzie, &#8220;Is Ovid&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Metamorphoses&#8217;<\/em> portrayal of women a projection of male fantasy?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/609\/2013\/06\/EdSykes.pdf\">Ed Sykes, &#8220;The Cyclops story in the\u00a0<em>Odyssey<\/em> is an exploration of what it means to be civilised.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong>2014<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Winner:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack West-Sherring, &#8220;What is the Future of Latin?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\">\u00a0Runners-up:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Laurence Crumbie: The Typicality of Apuleius' Witches \" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/609\/2014\/05\/The-Typicality-of-Apuleius-Witches.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurence Crumbie, &#8220;The Typicality of Apuleius&#8217; Witches&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sangeeta Grantham-Youngs Is The Notion Of The Poet's Voice Useful For Understanding Aristophanic Comedy\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/609\/2014\/05\/The-notion-of-the-poets-voice-in-Aristophanic-Comedy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sangeeta Grantham-Youngs, &#8220;Is the Notion of the Poet&#8217;s Voice a Useful one for Understanding Aristophanic Comedy?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cressida Travis - Are Herodotus' Digressions in Book 1 Irrelevant\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/609\/2014\/05\/Herodotus-digressions-2_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cressida Travis, &#8220;Are Herodotus&#8217; Digressions in Book 1 &#8216;Irrelevant&#8217;?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong>2015<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Winner:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom McConnell, &#8220;To what extent is\u00a0<em>Trachiniae\u00a0<\/em>a play about overwhelming natural and psychological forces?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong>2016\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Winner:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Beatrice Clegg, &#8220;In\u00a0<em>Quomodo Adolescens<\/em>, Plutarch&#8217;s concern with poetry and paideia is all about power&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong>2018<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Winner:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Hithersay, &#8220;Ovidian Rome and the Pseudo-Augustan Voice of the\u00a0<em>Ars Amatoria<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dominic Hyde, &#8220;To what extent and in what ways were the achievements of Alexander built on those of his father Philip?&#8221; [in issue]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong>2019<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Winner:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Louisa Pannifer, &#8220;Explore the ways in which\u00a0<em>Amphitruo\u00a0<\/em>reflects the context in which it was written: The Role of the Roman Door&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Runner-up:<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/are-the-mistresses-of-elegy-ever-more-than-metaphors-for-the-poetic-projects-andor-political-interest-of-their-authors\/\">Emily Lane, &#8220;Are the mistresses of elegy ever more than metaphors for the poetic projects and\/or political interest of their authors?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Lawerence Shenfield Prize\u00a0was established having received a generous bequest from Dr Shenfield. 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List of Winners 2009 Winner: Chris Davies, &#8220;An Epicurean Adoption&#8221; Runners-up: Eleanor Davies, &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lawrence Shenfield Prize - Pegasus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/pegasus\/the-lawrence-shenfield-prize\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lawrence Shenfield Prize - Pegasus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0Lawerence Shenfield Prize\u00a0was established having received a generous bequest from Dr Shenfield. 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