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JACT/The Classical Association’s prizes are up and running.

The Sam Hood Prize For Greek or Latin translation is awarded to anyone under 19 in pre-university education, subscribing to Omnibus magazine .

The Gladstone Memorial Prize is an essay competition open to any full-time student prior to taking A Level/IB.

For full details on both competitions visit this link .

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Gladstone Memorial Essay Prize

Posted by Mrs Howard on 12th November 2019 | Categories: Sixth Form | Comments: 0 comments

We are delighted to announce that CRGS student Declan Boyd has just won a nationwide Sixth Form essay prize.

Published twice a year, ‘Omnibus’ is the official magazine of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT), which offers fresh insights into the greatest classical texts and provides news and views from the world of classical archaeology and art. Every year the magazine invites contributions from students and this year Declan’s essay answered the question ‘The world of historians is a man’s world’. To what extent do you agree? with reference to Tacitus’ Annals.

As well as winning the publication’s Gladstone Memorial Essay Prize, worth £250, Declan’s essay has already received a number of favourable reviews from prominent classical scholars following its online publication, and it will appear in the next magazine.

This is a fantastic achievement – well done, Declan.

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Gladstone and Homer

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This chapter examines the reasons why Gladstone took up Homeric studies and attempts to bring out the significance of the substantial shift in his views. One reason for Gladstone's study of Homer is that the task provided a diversion from politics, a way of spending spare time profitably. A second explanation of his dedication to Homer is that he was eager to attack the opinions of George Grote, the leading authority of the day on ancient Greece. A third reason for the Homeric enterprise was distinctly religious. During the 1850s Gladstone became troubled by the growth of the assumption that little or nothing about religion was supernatural. He mounted an assault on the notion that religion is merely an expression of human instincts, using Homer's depiction of the pagan gods and goddesses.

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The 2023 shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution and quality of six history monographs published in 2022.

• The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 by Misha Ewen (University of Pennsylvania Press)
• News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform by Simon Huxtable (Oxford University Press)
• On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia by Jennifer Keating (Oxford University Press)
• Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius (Harvard University Press)
• Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought by Vikram Visana (Cambridge University Press)
• Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262 by Emily Joan Ward (Cambridge University Press)

The Prize offers £1000 to the author of a first monograph in the field of European and World History.

The winner of this year’s gladstone prize will be announced in late june / early july , along with recipients of the society’s other 2023 awards ., about the prize.

The Gladstone Prize is one of the Royal Historical Society’s two annual book awards

Titles eligible for the 2023 Prize will be:

• its author’s first solely written history book;
• on a subject within a field of European or World History;
• an original and scholarly work of historical research by an author who received their doctoral degree from a British or Irish university;
• published in English during the calendar year 2022.

The Gladstone Memorial Trust made it possible for the RHS to launch the Gladstone History book prize in 1998. The Prize subsequently received support from the Linbury Trust. Find out more about the Prize, and its previous winners, on the RHS website .

Also available: the 2023 Whitfield Book Prize Shortlist

The RHS Whitfield Prize is awarded to a first monograph in the field of British and Irish History. This year’s shortlist of six titles is also now available , with the winner announced in late June / early July .

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• Dec 24, 2022

Competition: Omnibus Essay Prize 2022

Are you under 19 years old and still in full-time education? If so, you are eligible to apply for the Gladstone Memorial Essay Prize offered by Omnibus this year.

This competition involves writing an essay on one of the following topics :

What is the most interesting encounter between two characters in Greek tragedy that you have read, and why do you think so?

What part does Ascanius play in the story of the Aeneid ?

In what ways is the Iliad the story of Ilion (Troy)?

What did power look like in Classical Athens or Late Republican Rome or early Imperial Rome?

What does Greek and/or Roman art tell us about Greek and Roman ideas of masculinity?

What were the attractions to Plato or Xenophon of writing dialogues as a way of doing philosophy?

Why does the modern world find the Romans so fascinating?

The first prize stands at £200, the second at £100. Essays must not exceed 2000 words.

Deadline: 8 July 2022

Find out how to submit your entry here : https://classicalassociation.org/for-students/essay-and-translation-prizes/

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Cannes Film Festival: Red Carpet Roundup

The best fashion from an event with a lot of photo ops.

At the premiere of “Megalopolis” at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, its director, Francis Ford Coppola, center, and many cast members and guests evoked Old Hollywood elegance in glamorous evening wear. Credit... Sebastien Nogier/EPA, via Shutterstock

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Jane Birkin pairing her beaded dress with a basket. Madonna in a Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bra and a garter set. Kristen Stewart barefoot in Chanel chain mail. Spike Lee in a sunset-inspired suit.

The Cannes Film Festival, with its sheer preponderance of red carpets and boardwalk photo ops, its blockbusters and art house flicks, has given the world more indelible fashion moments than any other festival. In 2002, Sharon Stone made so many dramatic red carpet entrances as a member of the Cannes jury that she managed to revive her flagging career through the power of clothes alone.

This festival, held on the French Riviera, is taking place from May 14 to May 25 this year. It has been off to a glamorous start — and some attendees threw down the fashion gauntlet even before its official opening ceremony on Tuesday evening.

The actress Anya Taylor-Joy , who is in Cannes to promote “Furiosa,” the latest “Mad Max” movie, made waves by stepping out on Monday in a Jacquemus straw hat so large it doubled as a portable sunshade. The filmmaker Greta Gerwig, whose job as president of the festival’s competition jury means packing 10 days’ worth of outfits, stopped by a photo call on Tuesday morning wearing an hourglass-effect, blue-and-white-striped milkmaid dress straight from the latest Maison Margiela couture collection .

Indeed, what makes the Cannes Film Festival such irresistible eye candy is that it’s not only a parade of grand gowns and tuxedos, but also a panoply of accessible sunshine style.

The fashion show really kicked off with the opening ceremony, attended by stars like Léa Seydoux, Jane Fonda, Lily Gladstone and Meryl Streep, who was honored with a lifetime achievement Palme d’Or award. As the fashion editor Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Ms. Streep gave the world a description of the trickle-down fashion effect that has yet to be beaten. Today the Côte d’Azur, tomorrow your closet? It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.

Thursday, May 16

Teyana Taylor, the actress, singer and dancer, in Roberto Cavalli.

Adam Driver, the actor, in Burberry.

Francis Ford Coppola, the director.

Aubrey Plaza, the actress, in Loewe.

Shia LaBeouf, the actor, in Giorgio Armani.

Chloe Fineman, the actress, in Celine.

Alton Mason, the model, in Louis Gabriel Nouchi.

Yseult, the French singer, in Dior.

Barry Keoghan, the actor, in Burberry.

Crystal Zhang, the Chinese actress, in Versace.

Luma Grothe, the Brazilian model.

Giancarlo Esposito, the actor, in Giorgio Armani.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Indian actress, in Falguni Shane Peacock .

Araya Hargate, the Thai actress, in Maison Margiela.

Jasmine Jobson, the British actress, in Louis Vuitton.

Anya Taylor-Joy, the actress, in Jil Sander.

Chris Hemsworth, the actor.

Iggy Pop, the musician.

Susan Chardy, the Zambian-British actress and model, in Nicolas Besson.

Wednesday, May 15

Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior.

Naomi Campbell, the model, in Chanel.

Elsa Pataky, the model and actress, and her husband Chris Hemsworth, both in Armani Privé.

Law Roach, the stylist, in Chanel.

Greta Gerwig, the actress and filmmaker, in Armani Privé.

Nicky Doll, a French drag performer.

Baz Luhrmann, the director.

Sabrina Elba, the cosmetics entrepreneur and a United Nations goodwill ambassador, in Fendi.

Iris Mittenaere, a French model and a former Miss France and Miss Universe, in Stephanie Rolland.

Qian Hui, the Chinese actress, in JoliPoli Couture.

Pierre Hache, a French D.J. who goes by Kiddy Smile.

Cindy Bruna, the model, in Laruicci.

Maëva Coucke, a French model and a former Miss France, in Elio Abou Fayssal.

Alioune Badara Fall, the model, in Louis Gabriel Nouchi.

Eddy de Pretto, the French singer and actor, in Ami.

Tuesday, May 14

Greta Gerwig in Saint Laurent.

Lily Gladstone, the actress, in Gucci.

Meryl Streep, the actress, in Dior.

Léa Seydoux, the actress, in Louis Vuitton.

Zhao Tao, the Chinese actress, in Dior.

Heidi Klum, the model and TV host, in Saiid Kobeisy.

Baloji, the Belgian-Congolese director, rapper and multidisciplinary artist, in Louis Vuitton.

Taylor Hill, the model, in Balmain.

Jane Fonda, the actress, in an Elie Saab jumpsuit.

Alicia Aylies, the French singer and model, in Dobrzanska.

Nicolas Seydoux, the French producer and executive.

Juliette Binoche, the actress, in Dior.

Messi, a Border collie and a star of the film “ Anatomy of a Fall ,” which won the top prize at last year’s festival.

Helena Christensen, the model, in Vivienne Westwood.

Omar Sy, the actor, in Louis Vuitton.

Zoe Wittock, the Belgian filmmaker, in Zimmerman.

Nadine Labaki, the Lebanese actress and director, in Celine.

Rahi Chadda, a British-Indian fashion influencer, in Saint Laurent.

Ilona Matsour, a German fashion designer.

Hirokazu Kore-eda, the Japanese director.

Mouna Ayoub, a Lebanese socialite in Paris with one of the largest couture collections in the world.

Eva Green, the French actress, in Armani Privé.

Hofit Golan, an Israeli influencer, in JoliPoli Couture.

Baptiste Giabiconi, a French model and a muse of the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, in Dior.

Rose Bertram, the Belgian model, in Woná Concept.

Farhana Bodi, an Indian influencer and reality TV star in Dubai, in Atelier Zhura.

Shanina Shaik, the model, in Zuhair Murad.

Raymond Depardon, the French documentary filmmaker and photojournalist.

Greta Gerwig in Maison Margiela.

Meryl Streep in Michael Kors.

Monday, May 13

Anya Taylor-Joy in a Jacquemus hat.

Vanessa Friedman has been the fashion director and chief fashion critic for The Times since 2014. More about Vanessa Friedman

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