Question
The archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt transform into Apollo and Silenus in a Tony Harrison play titled for The Trackers of this city. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Egyptian city where archaeologists discovered a trove of over five hundred thousand papyri, including texts of Sophocles’ Ichneutae and many of the plays of Menander, in the early 20th century.
ANSWER: Oxyrhynchus [or Oxyrhynchon polis; accept The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus] (The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus incorporates parts of Ichneutae.)
[10e] Sophocles’s Ichneutae is one of these plays, the only fully-extant example of which is Euripides’s Cyclops. Entries to the City Dionysia consisted of three tragedies and one of these tragi-comic plays.
ANSWER: satyr plays
[10h] In 2019, this classicist was suspended from Oxford for stealing papyri from the Oxyrhynchus collection and selling them to Hobby Lobby. Questions have been raised about this classicist’s 2014 “discovery” of two poems by Sappho, including the “Brothers” poem.
ANSWER: Dirk Obbink
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
Data
| BHSU | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | I would prefer not to | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | In Search of Things Past | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Canadians | Quasicrystal Silence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |