Pnyx Aletheia / The Prize
The Prize
The Pnyx Aletheia Prize for Truth
An annual prize for humankind — conferred on those whose verified disclosures served the public at grave personal cost, and decreed, at last, to history's truth-tellers who were honoured too late.
What the Prize honours
One act, above every field: telling the truth at personal cost.
The Prize is not given for a discipline or a nation. It is given for an act that every discipline and every nation depends upon. A disclosure must pass three tests, all three:
I
Verifiable
Provable through documents, data, or testimony.
II
Public interest
It affects health, safety, rights, or honest institutions.
III
Grave risk
Revealing it cost the teller.
Presenter film. The presenter's voice and likeness may be generated; this is always disclosed. Every statement is drawn from the Foundation's Charter and the documentary record.
A word from the Foundation
Who we are. What we stand for.
In two minutes, the Foundation's presenter explains why the Pnyx Aletheia Prize for Truth exists, whom it honours, and the promise it makes: that the price of truth will no longer be a life.
The Prize is independent of every government, judged against published criteria, and conferred each year on a different continent.
What a Laureate receives
Honour, protection, and permanence.
Honour
The Decree
Read aloud at the annual Convocation and issued from the Foundation's seat in Geneva — an honour spoken while the Laureate can still hear it.
Protection
The Sovereign Grant
A single, substantial disbursement guaranteeing lifelong economic independence, with security, relocation, standing legal defence and provisions for the family.
Permanence
Inscription
The verified Truth Dossier is sealed into the Unkillable Archive, replicated across six continents — beyond the reach of any single power.
Recognition
The Seal of the Pnyx
The Laureate joins the roll that begins with Socrates: a standing assembly of those who paid truth's full price.
The year of the Prize
Four moments, every year.
Nominations open
Names may be put forward to the Foundation. Sensitive material travels only through the secure Portal, when it opens.
The Euthyna
Reception, independent corroboration, adversarial review, inscription — blind to politics.
The Laureate is named
Announced on World Press Freedom Day.
The Prize is conferred
At the annual Convocation, held each year on a different continent — or before an empty chair.
The prize humanity never had
The great prizes honour what truth makes possible. None honoured the truth itself.
The world's great international prizes celebrate discovery, literature, peace and enterprise — achievements that all rest on someone, somewhere, having told the truth. Among them, none has been decreed to that act itself. The Pnyx Aletheia Prize for Truth fills that void, for humankind.
Nominations
Anyone may put a name forward. The Euthyna judges the disclosure, never the nominator.
The Prize is open to truth-tellers of every nation, faith, and political affiliation, and of none. No cycle honours disclosures against only one government, industry, or ideology.
From the Foundation
Films & dispatches
Addresses, ceremonies, laureate tributes and field reports — new films are added here as they are released.
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