Filippo Mura , a fifth-year student of the "Gramsci" Liceo Classico in Olbia , was the best in translating a passage from the Greek of Herodotus and in writing a short essay in which the proposed theme and the content of some texts had to be reworked . The Olbia student won the five hundred euro prize offered by the seventh edition of the "Certamen Andrea Blasina" , organized by the Azuni high school under the patronage of the University of Sassari and in collaboration with the Italian Classical Culture Association .
The second and third positions went to Viola Spano and Sebastiano Burrai , both students of the Liceo Azuni and also in their last year of the course, who were respectively awarded a prize of three hundred euros and one of two hundred.
Nineteen students out of twenty-one enrolled from the "Motzo" high schools of Quartu Sant'Elena participated in the competition, reserved for students of the fourth and fifth grades of classical high schools throughout Sardinia with an average grade equal to or greater than eight tenths in Latin and Greek. , “Gramsci” of Olbia, “Dettori” of Tempio, “Azuni” and “Canopoleno” of Sassari .
The event, dedicated to the memory of the late professor Andrea Blasina , professor of Latin and Greek at the Azuni high school who died prematurely a few years ago, was coordinated by the teachers of the department of classical languages and literature with the support of the administrative staff.
The final evening and the award ceremony took place in the great hall of the University of Sassari.