The Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award
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In partnership with the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London, the annual award ceremony and lecture for the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2024 was held on 10 June 2026.
This year's prize was won by Yilin (Miranda) Wang for the dissertation ‘Words Made Flesh: How the Theme of Corpse Mutilation Reveals the Narrative Economy of the Iliad.’
Runner-up was Maria Marsh, with her dissertation titled ‘The Orphic Gold Tablets: Practitioners, Worshippers, and Dionysiac Mystery Initiation.’ ‘
Following the ceremony, the annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Lecture was given by Professor Melissa Lane of Princeton University on the subject of ‘Plato’s Republic on Motivating (Ecological) Guardianship’. She drew on Plato’s Republic to explore how people can be educated so as to truly care about what is right to do, bringing this perspective to bear on the challenges of ecology.
Some 60 people enjoyed this joyous occasion and the engaging lecture.
history
Katie Lentakis (1920-2000) was a devoted member of the Anglo-Hellenic community of London and served as Vice-Chairman of the League for many years.
After her death, the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund was established by the League out of donations given in Katie’s memory. The Fund is charitably invested and the annual interest goes towards an award, which, since 2002, has been made every year to a final-year undergraduate studying in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s College London.
The Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award rewards the writer of the best submitted essay on a topic related to any field of Hellenic Studies.
