Question
According to Iamblichus, a dialogue named for this person is the best place to start reading Plato. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this person who names two Platonic dialogues. After interrupting Socrates’ discussion of Diotima’s teachings in another dialogue, this person delivers a speech comparing Socrates to a statue of Silenus.
ANSWER: Alcibiades [accept First Alcibiades or Alcibiades Major or Alcibiades I; accept Second Alcibiades or Alcibiades Minor or Alcibiades II]
[10e] Alcibiades’ drunken speech occurs during a discussion on the nature of love in this Platonic dialogue set during a drinking party.
ANSWER: Symposium
[10h] In First Alcibiades, Socrates replaces this maxim’s first word with “see” when advising Alcibiades on how to perform it. Diogenes Laërtius’ (“lay-er-tea-us’s”) Lives attributes the first usage of this maxim to Thales.
ANSWER: “know thyself” [or “know yourself” or “gnōthi sauton”]
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Summary
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 75% | 38% | 13% |
2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
Data
Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Berkeley C | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State C | Michigan State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Indiana B | Notre Dame A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Illinois A | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Northwestern A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Notre Dame B | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Notre Dame C | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Purdue | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Illinois C | SIUE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UF A | UF C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UF B | UCF | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Yale A | Harvard B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Harvard A | MIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Brandeis | Tufts | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
BU | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
JHU A | Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Maryland | JHU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Princeton | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
TAMU | Houston | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Texas A | Texas B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 3HK1MM | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Limp Chriskit | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Oxford School for Quizness | Sorted | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
The Crying of Team 49 | Say it | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Gressenheller A | See it | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
We jopping | Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest. | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors | Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
TOAD | Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ill-Advised Buzz | bruh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
UNC B | UNC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
RIT A | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |