Balliol undergraduate wins Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse

Second-year undergraduate David Dunn (Balliol 2020, Literae Humaniores) has won Oxford University’s historic Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse.

The Gaisford Prize was founded in 1855, in memory of Dr Thomas Gaisford (Regius Professor of Greek 1811–1855). For most of its history, it has been awarded for classical Greek verse and prose. Today Gaisford Prizes are awarded for verse, prose, and dissertations at the undergraduate and masters level.

David won the prize for his translation, into Greek verse (iambic trimeter), of a set passage from Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Part Two.

Out of 88 previous winners of the verse prize since it was first awarded in 1857, 24 have been from Balliol.