Question
In the Argonautica, the Argonaut Ancaeus mocks the proverb “There is many a slip between the cup and the lip” before being proven wrong when he dies in this manner. For 10 points each:
[10h] Describe this cause of death. The blood of a different man killed in this manner became anemone flowers when mixed with a goddess’ tears.
ANSWER: gored by a boar [accept answers relating that they were killed by a boar; prompt on killed by an animal by asking, “What kind of animal?”] (The other man is Adonis.)
[10m] A different Argonaut named Ancaeus was killed by the Calydonian boar, which was eventually killed by this man, who gave its hide to Atalanta.
ANSWER: Meleager
[10e] A boar in Bithynia killed the Argonaut seer Idmon, who was a son of this god of prophecy, music, and the sun.
ANSWER: Apollo
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 50% | 88% | 38% |
Data
| Cornell Earth | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell Wind | Columbia Ly-α | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rochester B | Cornell Fire | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rochester A | Rochester C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |