We are pleased to announce the annual award ceremony and lecture for the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2025. The Award is given annually by the League in memory of Katie Lentakis, for many years a stalwart of the London Greek community and a longstanding Vice-Chair of the League. The competition is open to final-year undergraduates at King’s College London for an essay on a Greek subject.

The ceremony will be an opportunity to applaud and meet the winner of this year’s competition.

In addition, the Department of Classics at King’s College London will be awarding the third Mary Margaret McCabe Dissertation Prize in Ancient Philosophy.

Following the awards, our keynote speaker, Professor Emeritus Michael Trapp, will speak on ‘A Life of Socrates in Six Scenes’, using a set of trade cards from the 1940s as a point of entry into questions about how the biography of Socrates has been constructed and reconstructed over the ages.

Michael Trapp is Emeritus Professor of Greek Literature and Thought at King’s College London, where he taught from 1989 to 2023. His research and publications range over Greek literature and philosophy in the Roman Imperial period, ancient epistolography, the reception of Socrates in and since antiquity, the history of classical studies at King’s, and the local history (classical and non-classical) of the King’s Strand campus. He is currently working on an edition and translation of the complete works of Aelius Aristides for the Loeb Classical Library.

Register for your place here.