Question

In this play, a speech that describes a race that “heard sounds, but could not listen” and lived in holes like ants also lists mantic techniques like watching the flight of “crook-clawed” birds. Scholars such as Margalit Finkelberg have tried to untangle the baffling geography of this play, which places its setting both near Arabia and north of the Amazons and the Bosporus. Nymphs aboard winged ships and a god riding a griffin (10[1])appear in this play, whose leading actor may have originally spoken his lines from (-5[1])behind a giant wooden dummy that is dragged onto the stage by personifications of Strength and Violence (10[1])named Kratos and Bia. (10[3])The protagonist (10[1])of this (-5[1])play prophesies (10[1])Io’s future (10[1])but refuses to reveal his (10[1])foreknowledge of his enemy’s downfall, despite the urgings of a chorus of Oceanus’s daughters. (10[1])For 10 points, name this play attributed (10[1])to Aeschylus in which the title titan (10[1])is shackled (10[1])to (10[1])a mountain. (10[4])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: Prometheus Bound [or Promētheús Desmṓtēs; or Prometheus Vinctus]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%8%133.88

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Daniel SheinbergYale AMaryland A7210
Annabelle YangWUSTL AGeorgia Tech A86-5
Leah HonsingerFlorida ACornell A10310
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AIndiana A10710
Matt JacksonChicago ABrown A10710
Mitch McCullarIllinois AYale B10710
Amogh KulkarniChicago BStanford A10910
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BPenn State A111-5
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AMinnesota B11310
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BRutgers A11510
Jeffrey FungHarvard ACornell B12010
Clark SmithOhio State ADuke A13410
Jim FanNorth Carolina ANorthwestern A14110
Ricky LiMIT AToronto A14810
Kevin FanMcGill APenn A15010
Halle FriedmanNYU AJohns Hopkins A15110
JD KrothIowa State ASouth Carolina A15310
Sean DoyleHouston ARutgers B15310
Jisoo YooTexas AMinnesota A15310
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AWUSTL A15310
Dean Ah NowClaremont AVirginia A15410
Michael MaysImperial AColumbia B15410
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BImperial A1540
Henry CafaroChicago CColumbia A15410
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BFlorida B15410
Matt SchiavonePurdue AMichigan A15410
Alex SchmidtPenn State AWUSTL B15410