Question

This character’s sister is burned with cigarettes after refusing to give away his location in Yaël ("yah-EL") Farber’s post-apartheid play Molora. The title group of another play threatens to poison the soil after this character exits the stage, having just encouraged a city to wield the “spear of victory” against its enemies. In a 20th-century play, while women carry funeral urns to a statue of Zeus, this character introduces himself under the alias (15[1])Philebus. This character devises a blood (*) tribute to Zeus (10[1])in a play in which he interprets himself as a snake in his (10[1])mother’s dream. Athena renames the Furies after (10[1])she casts the (10[1])tie-breaking (10[2])vote at this character’s trial for murdering his (10[1])mother, Clytemnestra. For 10 points, name this son of Agamemnon, the namesake of a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. ■END■

ANSWER: Orestes [accept Oresteia]
<Felix Wang, European Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ned TagtmeierChicago ASIUE7115
Charles HangWUSTLIllinois C8010
Justin WytmarIllinois AIndiana B9410
Matt SchiavoneNorthwestern AChicago B10110
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BNorthwestern B10410
Kennedy GallaherNotre Dame CIndiana A10510
Joel MilesMinnesotaNotre Dame A10510
Jacob FinleyNotre Dame BPurdue11310

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2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%33%117.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%109.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%25%0%93.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%0%40%116.00
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%50%109.50
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%33%111.33
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y4100%25%0%98.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%13%0%96.63
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%103.50