Question
This character is first described by the adjective polytropos, which Robert Fagles translated as “the man of twists and turns.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this character who embarks on a years-long journey returning from the Trojan War to Ithaca in a namesake Homeric epic.
ANSWER: Odysseus
[10h] This translator, the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer, rendered polytropos as“complicated” in her 2018 translation of the Odyssey. She also published a translation of the Iliad in 2023.
ANSWER: Emily Wilson
[10m] The Anger of Achilles subtitles this man’s prose translation of the Iliad, whose verse passages are rather unfaithful to the text. This author described how a stuttering man survived the purge of Livia in a different book.
ANSWER: Robert Graves (The novel is I, Claudius.)
<Literature - European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 17% | 50% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 25% | 50% |
Data
| Vanderbilt B | Belmont | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | WUSTL | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Claremont | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |