Question

In one play, a character goes to this man’s house and exasperates him by requesting a beggar’s outfit and some vegetables. In a different play, this man pleads for someone to spy on his behalf on a gathering of his own female characters. Because the “iron-clamped mace” in this man’s verse is lighter than the “two chariots and two corpses” in his alphabetically prior opponent’s verse, a literal (*) scale in a third play tips in his opponent’s favor. (10[1])One play invents this man’s fictional relative Mnesilochus, with whom he crashes the women-only Thesmophoria festival. This author died a year before the first performance of another author’s play in which Dionysus judges this man’s plays to be inferior to those of Aeschylus. For 10 points, Aristophanes’ (-5[1])comedies like The Frogs lampoon what Greek (-5[1])tragedian (-5[1])of Medea? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Euripides [the play in the first line is The Acharnians.]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tony ChenToronto WearyLibrary of Babel School of Continuing Studies7710
Raymond ChenToronto RoflLa Clique du Château124-5
Ben WismathToronto JoyWaterloo Hatsune131-5
Micah ColmanWaterloo MikuMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian132-5
Nicolas EdwardsLa Clique du ChâteauToronto Rofl13410
Jared HeWaterloo HatsuneToronto Joy13510
Ishan JoshiMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, AdrianWaterloo Miku13510

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%14%14%104.43
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%33%33%110.67
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%0%40%108.20
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%75%120.25
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%84.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%33%67%102.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%50%135.00