Question
The flashback that introduces the main action in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is triggered when Laruelle does a parody of this activity using Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity popular in ancient Rome, in which people would attempt to determine their future by flipping to a random page of a certain Roman author’s work and reading the first line they saw.
ANSWER: sortes Vergilianae [or Virgilian Lots; prompt on answers involving predicting the future from reading Virgil; reject “Sortes Homericae”]
[10e] People who employed the sortes Vergilianae most commonly drew from this epic of his, which begins, “I sing of arms and the man.”
ANSWER: The Aeneid
[10m] An emperor known by this name used a line from the Aeneid to determine that his brother Quintillus should not succeed him. The “pumpkinification” of another emperor of this name is described in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis.
ANSWER: Claudius [accept Claudius Gothicus or Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus] (Quintillus did in fact succeed Claudius Gothicus via coup, reigned for 17 days, and was assassinated by his soldiers.)
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell MATLAB | Cornell R | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Syracuse+Rochester | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |