Question
This author’s De Astronomica recapitulates stories associated with ancient constellations. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Roman whose best-known work is paired with Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca in a “pair of handbooks” to Greek mythology and has a Latin title whose name means “folktales.”
ANSWER: Gaius Julius Hyginus
[10m] Hyginus’s Fabulae says that this god fathered Terra and, by Terra, fathered the Titans and many other gods. This god of the bright upper sky shares his name with the fifth classical element, believed to fill the heavens.
ANSWER: Aether
[10e] Hyginus’s incestuous genealogy continues with Terra giving birth to this god, who then fathers the Giants with Terra. This god names the abyss used to imprison the Titans and torture wicked figures.
ANSWER: Tartarus
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 90% | 40% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Berkeley C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford B | Stanford C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |