Essay Competition Winners 2023

Thank you for submitting your essays to our outreach essay competition for schools. We are delighted to announce the prizewinners below.

Years 10-11
First prize: Meredith Wade, The Queen Katherine School LA9 6PJ
Solar syncretism in the ancient and modern worlds

Runner-up: Gabriel Kelly, Hampton School TW12 3HD
How are Persia and Persians represented in ancient Greek sources?

Runner-up: Anna Wang, Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne, Australia
Icarus’ fall

Years 12-13
Winner: Angelina Poggio Magnus, Frances Holland School SW1W 8JF
Unravelling beauty and authority: Cleopatra and Livia as case studies in ancient aesthetics and power dynamics 

Runner-up: Ayodenu Dosumu, St Benedict’s School W5 2ES
The evolution of the myth of Clytemnestra 

Runner-up: Willow Hefferman, Sir William Perkins’s School KT16 9BN
Discuss the meaning of a particular ancient myth and how it has changed over time: Orpheus and Eurydice

Commendations
Anna Chance
Rebecca Cobb
Leo Percival
Olivia Redman
Rowan Rutherford
Natasha Wahab