Question
To celebrate its dedicatee, a work by this poet tells the story of Typhon and his imprisonment under Mount Etna. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this late member of the nine canonical Greek lyric poets, who is best known for his victory odes for victors at Panhellenic festivals such as his “Olympic Odes.”
ANSWER: Pindar [or Pindaros or Pindarus]
[10e] The sole female member of the nine Greek lyric poets was this poet from Lesbos, who wrote an “Ode to Aphrodite.”
ANSWER: Sappho of Lesbos
[10h] This member of the nine lyric poets is best known for his elegies for Thermopylae and Plataea (“plah-TEE-uh”). He was supposedly the uncle of the lyric poet Bacchylides (“BACK-ee-LIE-deez”).
ANSWER: Simonides (“SIGH-moh-NYE-deez”) of Ceos
Summary
2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
Our Job is Buzz | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
doubleplusnegfive | Palestrina Sawayama | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
BHSU | Weird Klaus Barbie | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |