STINNECKE PRIZE

This prize, established at Princeton in 1870, is given to the sophomore or junior who passes the best examination based on the Odes of Horace, Eclogues of Vergil, and the Latin Grammar and Prosody, as well as the Anabasis of Xenophon or Plato’s Euthyphro, Crito, Apology and Phaedo and the Greek Grammar. The winner receives the stipend of $1000 each year of his or her period of tenure (total maximum of $3000) in addition to any scholarship or other financial assistance, which he or she may be receiving. The winner, by the way, has often been a student who began Greek in freshman year and read independently the following summer. (Since 1986, juniors have also been eligible for this prize: totals $2000.)  All sophomores and juniors are eligible. There is no need to be a Classics major to compete.

The examination for the 2010 Stinnecke Prize to be announced.

The Department of Classics takes great pleasure in announcing the 2009 Stinnecke Prize winner is Kevin Moch -10.  Congratulations Kevin!