Gaius Julius Hyginus - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

This author’s De Astronomica recapitulates stories associated with ancient constellations. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Roman whose best-known work is paired with Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca in a “pair of handbooks” to Greek mythology and has a Latin title whose name means “folktales.”

ANSWER: Gaius Julius Hyginus

[10m] Hyginus’s Fabulae says that this god fathered Terra and, by Terra, fathered the Titans and many other gods. This god of the bright upper sky shares his name with the fifth classical element, believed to fill the heavens.

ANSWER: Aether

[10e] Hyginus’s incestuous genealogy continues with Terra giving birth to this god, who then fathers the Giants with Terra. This god names the abyss used to imprison the Titans and torture wicked figures.

ANSWER: Tartarus

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	13.33	89%	33%	11%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Binghamton	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT A	0	10	10	20
Cornell C	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Warwick	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Durham A	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Stanford C	0	0	0	0
Duke A	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
GWU A	JMU B	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	GWU B	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	JMU A	0	0	10	10
UNC D	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC A	Virginia C	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Iowa A	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Michigan State A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Rice A	0	10	10	20
Sorbonne	Iowa B	0	10	10	20
UW A	Texas A&M A	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M B	Appalachian State	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Haverford	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	John Jay	0	10	10	20
NYU A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Penn	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Rowan	0	10	10	20
Geodesic	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Alabama	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
MTSU	Harding	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee	0	0	10	10
UNC B	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	UNC C	0	0	10	10
Virginia B	Maryland C	0	10	10	20