The Harold J. Ralston Classics Writing Contest
Monmouth College

Previous Winners

1984-1985 Amy Wright '85
1985-1986 Bret Brown '86
1986-1987 Karen Swank '88
1987-1988 No Prize
1988-1989 Sylvia Zethmayr '90
1989-1990 Melissa Brewer '92
1990-1991 Stacy Stoyanoff '91
1991-1992 Melissa Brewer '92
1992-1993 Krissi Jimroglou '96
1993-1994 Kelly Ewalt '94 (Two modern adaptations of Juvenal's Satires)
1994-1995 Krissi Jimroglou '96
1995-1996 Duncan McPherson '97
1996-1997 Neil Dahlstrom '98
1997-1998 Mark Angelcyk '00
1998-1999 Anna S. Dybis '99
"Homer's Women"
1999-2000 Zina B. Lewis '01
"The Evolution of the Female in the Epic Tradition"
2000-2001 Zina B. Lewis '01 "The Centos of Eudocia and Proba"
2001-2002 Shanah Thompson '03 A Modern Psychologist's Version of Plato's Symposium
2002-2003 Martin Pickens '03 (The Use of Materia in Book I of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Its Revelance to Modern Theories on the Mechanical Properties of Matter.)
2003-2004 Matthew Katsenes '04  (The History of Ancient Mathematics)
2004-2005 Richard Harrod '07 (War Elephants in the Ancient World)
2005-2006 Richard Harrod '07 (The Mithras Cult)
2007 Sarah Sherry '08 (Percussion in the Ancient Worlds of Greece and Rome: Idiophones and Membranophones in the Cults of Cybele and Dionysus)
2008 Teri Edwards '09
2009 Laura Dumont '10
2010 Geoffrey Bird '11
2011 Geoffrey Bird '11
2012 Anne Cave '12 Roman Aquaducts
2013 Robert M. Cook '13  Roman Construction Techniques on Trajan's Column
2014 Emma Vanderpool '17 Cicero's use of pertimescere
2015 Emma Vanderpool '17 Passer: From Small Bird to Big Love
2016 Emma Vanderpool '17
2017 Emma Vanderpool '17 "The Medieval Transformation of Caesar's Invasion of Britain"

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