Question
A Stoic in this book who remains calm during a severe storm owns a copy of the now-lost fifth book of Epictetus’s Discourses. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 20-book miscellany that Aulus Gellius began writing over a long winter near Athens. This work contains important fragments of early Roman authors, such as the historian Claudius Quadrigarius.
ANSWER: Attic Nights [or Noctes Atticae]
[10m] Attic Nights contains a unique comparison between Caecilius Statius’s Plocium and its original by this Greek playwright. In another play by this writer, Knemon has a change of heart after Sostratos saves him from a well.
ANSWER: Menander [or Menandros] (The unnamed play is Dyskolos.)
[10e] Attic Nights contains the earliest extant version of a story later popularized by Aesop about Androcles, who befriends one of these animals after removing a painful thorn from its paw.
ANSWER: lions [accept “Androcles and the Lion”; prompt on big cats or felines or felids]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |