Question
Jason of Tralles used this object as a prop to represent Pentheus during a performance of The Bacchae to the delight of the Arsacid king, Orodes II. For 10 points each:
[10m] Cassius Dio relates that molten gold was allegedly poured into what object to mock the wealth of a man killed during a failed parlay with Surenas?
ANSWER: Crassus’s head [or the head of Marcus Licinius Crassus; accept Crassus’s skull; accept Crassus’s mouth or Crassus’s throat]
[10e] Crassus’s failed parley with Surenas followed his defeat by this empire at Carrhae, where mounted archers battered the Roman hollow square with this empire’s eponymous “shot.”
ANSWER: Parthian Empire [accept Parthian shot]
[10h] Roman dishonor at Carrhae was compounded by the capture of three of these military standards, which were assigned to every legion and resembled eagles.
ANSWER: aquilae
<KT, Ancient History>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
Data
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Innovation Academy C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lambert | Johns Creek | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Innovation Academy A | Milton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Mississippi State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |