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Ovid Competition

2023

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Ovid Competition 2023 ~ Winners

Performance

Winner

Theseus and the MINOTAUR!!!

James Tacey-Green

Reading Blue Coat School

Runner-up

The Minotaur Monologue

Isaac Thompson

Kingsdale Foundation School

Ironic: A Greek parody

Lily Rawson

Brookfield Community School

Highly Commended

King Midas and the Golden Touch

Evelyn Hutton, Maisie Tilakaratne, Jessica Underwood

Northampton High School

Artefact

Winner

Hades, Lord of the Underworld

Ramsha Arslan

Thorpe Hall School

a_hades_lord_of_the_underworld.jpg

A clay model of Hades, Lord of the Underworld, in the style of Disney's Hercules villain of the same name.

Runner-up

Arachne Crochet

Nayonika Singh

Tonbridge Grammar School

dd_arachne_crochet.jpg

A crocheted doll of Arachne with curly brown hair and a green dress stands over her future form: a sinister crocheted spider. On the table beside them is a small, golden tapestry.

Highly Commended

Pandora in the style of Banksy

Aarya Raval

St Albans High School for Girls

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Digital artwork split down the middle between day and night. On the left, Pandora in a nightscape bright with moonlight loses her grasp of something she reaches for. On the right, in daylight, is the balloon she has lost, labelled 'hope'.

Daedalus and Icarus Installation

Anna Iliev

Sydenham High School

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A dramatic model showing Icarus' fall. A human figure is shrouded in feathers and is photographed from different angles with dramatic lighting.

Creative Writing

Winner

Pandora Short Story

Niamh McNair

Badminton School

ii_pandora_short_story.pdf

Runner-up

Adonis and Aphrodite

Persephone Baker

Wycombe Abbey

z_adonis_and_aphrodite.docx

Highly Commended

Theseus and the Minotaur Illustrated Retelling

Lily McAndrew

Brookfield Community School

r_theseus_and_the_minotaur_illustrated_retelling.pdf

Theseus and the Minotaur Comic

Hugo Mititelu

Thames Christian School

i_theseus_and_the_minotaur_comic.pdf

Animation

Winner

Arachne the spinner

Khandro Hathorn

Chesterton Community College

Runner-up

Arachne

Sophie Sipp, Ayla Tunali-Flynn, Helen Jiang, Anna Kangis

Putney High School

Highly commended

Baucis and Philemon

Evan James

Reading Blue Coat School

Ovid Challenge

1st

Cockburn School

The Tiffin Girls' School

TGS Stars (Thomas Gainsborough School)

2nd

Tonbridge Grammar School

3rd

Mosslands School

184 Hills Road
Cambridge
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