Question

These objects are guarded by the serpentess Delphyne, who the Homeric Hymn to Apollo identifies as the creature later slain by Apollo at Delphi. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe these objects that are taken from a god and hidden in the Corycian Cave before being retrieved by Hermes and Aegipan.
ANSWER: Zeus’s sinews [or equivalents like Zeus’s tendons; prompt on descriptions of body parts of Zeus; prompt on sinews or tendons]
[10e] Zeus’s sinews are taken from him by Typhon, a child of this Greek personification of the earth and mother of the Titans.
ANSWER: Gaia
[10m] In a variant of the Typhon myth told in the Dionysiaca, this hero tricks Typhon into returning Zeus’s sinews to him through his singing. This hero later recruits the Spartoi to help him found a city.
ANSWER: Cadmus
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2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y817.50100%63%13%
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Alabama AGeorgia A0101020
Georgia Tech DAuburn A10101030
Tennesse BClemson A0101020
Auburn CEmory A010010
Georgia Tech EGeorgia Tech B010010
Georgia Tech FAuburn B0101020
Emory BSouth Carolina A010010
Georgia Tech CTusculum A0101020