Question

One of these events involving the author’s friend Catullus nearly occurs in Juvenal’s twelfth Satire. The title characters are kidnapped by bandits after one of these events in Book 3 of The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (10[1])(“loo-KIP-ee and CLY-tuh-fon”). In the Satyricon, an old tutor tells a story about the faithful “woman of Ephesus” shortly before one of these events that results in the death of Lichas. (-5[1])Sarah Ruden translated a line delivered after one of these events as “Someday you may recall today with pleasure.” (10[3]-5[1])A prologue narrated by the star Arcturus details one of these events involving Ampelisca, (-5[1])Palaestra, and the pimp Labrax (10[1])that instigates the plot of Plautus’s play The Rope. (10[1])Zeus sends a lightning (10[1])strike (10[1]-5[1])to cause one of these events after Odysseus’s men eat (10[1])Helios’s cattle. (10[5])For 10 points, ancient literary accounts of what type of event (-5[1])inspired Shakespeare’s The (10[1])Tempest? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[2])

ANSWER: shipwrecks [or maritime disasters; accept descriptions of disasters at sea or disasters involving a ship; prompt on sea storms or thunderstorms by asking “the storm leads to what type of event?”] (The fourth sentence refers to a speech given by Aeneas to his men after they reach dry land in the Aeneid.)
<European Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Back to tossups

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2295%0%23%119.05

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tanis NielsenClaremont ANYU A3610
Kevin FanMcGill AOhio State A64-5
Aum MundheRutgers AHouston A8310
Andrew HannaVanderbilt APenn A83-5
Daniel MaYale ATexas A8310
Grace LiuMIT ADuke A8310
James StevensonMichigan APenn State A97-5
Matt JacksonChicago AHarvard A10210
Jim FanNorth Carolina AImperial A11110
Steven YuanUC Berkeley BRutgers B11510
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AChicago B116-5
Charles HangWUSTL AToronto A11610
Karsten RynearsonYale BSouth Carolina A12610
Tracy MirkinFlorida AColumbia B12810
Matt SchiavonePurdue AIndiana A12810
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AMaryland A12810
Eric WolfsbergStanford ABrown A12810
David BassVirginia AIowa State A12810
Maximillian NieburJohns Hopkins ACornell A139-5
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BChicago C14210
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AVanderbilt A14310
Nathan ZhangCornell AJohns Hopkins A14410
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AMinnesota B1440
Puna EkkaMinnesota BNorthwestern A14410
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BColumbia A14410
Amogh KulkarniChicago BUC Berkeley A14410
Roxanne TangOhio State AMcGill A14410
Alex SchmidtPenn State AMichigan A1440