The archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt transform into Apollo and Silenus in a Tony Harrison play titled for The Trackers of this city. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Egyptian city where archaeologists discovered a trove of over five hundred thousand papyri, including texts of Sophocles’ Ichneutae and many of the plays of Menander, in the early 20th century.
ANSWER: Oxyrhynchus [or Oxyrhynchon polis; accept The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus] (The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus incorporates parts of Ichneutae.)
[10e] Sophocles’s Ichneutae is one of these plays, the only fully-extant example of which is Euripides’s Cyclops. Entries to the City Dionysia consisted of three tragedies and one of these tragi-comic plays.
ANSWER: satyr plays
[10h] In 2019, this classicist was suspended from Oxford for stealing papyri from the Oxyrhynchus collection and selling them to Hobby Lobby. Questions have been raised about this classicist’s 2014 “discovery” of two poems by Sappho, including the “Brothers” poem.
ANSWER: Dirk Obbink
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