Conington Prizes

Conington Prize

The 2024 Prize in the field of Ancient Philosophy and Ideas has been awarded to:

Dr Chiara Martini for her dissertation on Fiction and Reality in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Geometry.


Conington Prizes are offered for a dissertation on a subject chosen by the writer and approved as appropriate by the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy or the Board of the Faculty of Classics. The value of the Prizes will be £1,000.

The Faculty of Classics will offer the Prizes for Classical Literature, Textual Criticism and Philology in 2025 and Ancient History, Religion, Art and Archaeology in 2026.

The examiners may determine not to award the Prize in any year if no dissertation of sufficient merit is submitted.