Question
A Stoic in this book who remains calm during a severe storm owns a copy of the now-lost fifth book of Epictetus’s Discourses. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 20-book miscellany that Aulus Gellius began writing over a long winter near Athens. This work contains important fragments of early Roman authors, such as the historian Claudius Quadrigarius.
ANSWER: Attic Nights [or Noctes Atticae]
[10m] Attic Nights contains a unique comparison between Caecilius Statius’s Plocium and its original by this Greek playwright. In another play by this writer, Knemon has a change of heart after Sostratos saves him from a well.
ANSWER: Menander [or Menandros] (The unnamed play is Dyskolos.)
[10e] Attic Nights contains the earliest extant version of a story later popularized by Aesop about Androcles, who befriends one of these animals after removing a painful thorn from its paw.
ANSWER: lions [accept “Androcles and the Lion”; prompt on big cats or felines or felids]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |