Listed below are the names of recipients of past ovationes. The texts of their citations are linked to the date of their publication in Classical World.
- 2016: Frederick Booth, Linda Fabrizio, William Klingshirn
- 2015: Jennifer Roberts, Carl Rubino, Daniel P. Tompkins
- 2014: Martha Davis, Andrew Miller, Paul Properzio; Gratulatio: Sally Sanderlin
- 2013: William J. Mayer, Barbara Pavlock, David Sider
- 2012: Barbara K. Gold, Matthew S. Santirocco
- 2011: Janet Marion Martin, David J. Murphy, David Porter
- 2010: Adam Blistein, Larissa Bonfante, Lee T. Pearcy, Ann Raia; Gratulatio: Judith Peller Hallett
- 2008: Robert F. Boughner, Rita M. Fleischer
- 2007: Jill Crooker, Richard Gascoyne, Dora Kennedy
- 2006: Charles Zabrowski, Nicolas P. Gross, Elaine Fantham, Henry Bender
- 2005: Mimi Bender, Carol Berardelli, Jeannette Keshishian
- 2004: Howard Marblestone, Timothy Renner, Frank M. Snowden Jr., John Ziolkowski
- 2003: Martha Abbott, Melissa Schons Bishop, Sally Davis, Lawrence Gaichas, Linda Squier, Mary Ann Staley
- 2002: Clara Cocking Burk, Walter Donlan
- 2001: Barbara Wismer McManus, Philip Schwartz, Gail Ann Rickert
- 2000: Sister Agnes Josephine Conway, Philip T. Heesen, Marie Hildebrand Bintner, Irving Kizner, Diana Stone
- 1999: Sister Mary Berchmans Hannan, Dom Aidan Shea, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
- 1998: John Anderson, Margaret Curran
- 1997: Nancy A. McKee, Robert W. Carrubba
- 1996: Senator Paul Spyros Sarbanes, Christine Dunbar Sarbanes,
- 1995: Margaret A. Brucia, Frank P. Long, Elizabeth Anne Keat
- 1993: John E. Rexine, Mae Smethurst, Lawrence Gaichas, Anna Shaw Benjamin
- 1992: Patricia C. Knox, Philip N. Lockhart, Joseph F. O’Connor, David L. Rhody
- 1991: Anthony Coomber, Fred Mench. Various Latin tributes to Phyllis Winquist, John Francis Latimer, Harry B. Evans, Bernard M.W. Knox, Ethyle R. Wolfe
- 1990: John Traupman
- 1989: Eugene W. Miller, Jerry Clack, Sister Therese Daugherty S.S.N.D., Edna S. DeAngeli, Andrew Aronson
© The Classical Association of the Atlantic States; originally published in Classical World, volumes 82 – 104