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Julius Civilis Classics Tournament: Sure, I Speak a Little Latin
Written By: Dallas Simons
Round 6
NOTE TO MODERATOR: The first question is purely for fun and will not count as part of the scores. However, keep a note
of who answers it correctly, and in the case of a tie at the end of the match this question will serve as a tiebreaker.
0. In Book X of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, he states that this creature, “is so intensely cold as to extinguish fire by its
contact” like ice, and in Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods, he cites Greek philosophers who label this creature as the
element of fire. In mythology, a youth who mocked Demeter for the way she slurped her barley while searching for her
daughter Persephone was changed into this type of creature. For 10 points, identify this final form of Ascalabus, a creature
closely associated with the phoenix in the classical world, a type of amphibian similar to a lizard.
ANSWER: salamanders [accept lizard]
Begin keeping the official score here:
1. This author wrote his treatise on grammar by dictating it to a slave crammed into the back seat of his carriage
while traveling, and this author wrote a tragedy based on Oedipus. This author wrote a poem in praise of Hercules
and one titled “The Journey,” and Brutus wrote a response to this author's work Anticato. This author's most
famous work was finished by Aulus Hirtius, and its (*) eight books feature figures such as Cassivellaunus, Ariovistus,
and Vercingetorix. For 10 points, identify this author of commentaries on the Civil War and on the Gallic Wars.
ANSWER: Gaius Julius Caesar
2. One daughter of this woman married Oebalus and Perieres and became the first woman to remarry following the
death of her husband. In addition to Gorgophone, this woman bore Perses, the ancestor of the Persians, in addition
to Sthenelus, Mestor, and Alcaeus. This woman was originally betrothed to her uncle (*) Phineus, and this woman was
punished when her mother compared her beauty to that of the naiads. The daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, for 10
points, identify this Ethiopian princess who was rescued by Perseus and became his wife.
ANSWER: Andromeda
3. It contains an inscription on its base reading “Rhodhios,” and it originally stood on a replica of a ship's prow. This
piece is currently located at the top of the Daru staircase, and it was discovered by Charles Champoiseau. This piece
perhaps commemorated Antigonus II and the Battle of Cos, but an alternate theory holds that this peace was built
following a (*) win off of Cyprus by Demetrius I. Depicting the wind moving through the wings of the title goddess, for 10
points, identify this Hellenistic sculpture found on the island of Samothrace that features the Greek goddess of Victory.
ANSWER: Winged Victory of Samothrace [accept Nike of Samothrace]
4. One figure of this name was assassinated by Aristodicus of Tanagra after earlier passing a law which limited the
power of the Areopagus. That figure established pay for jurors and contributed to a period of radical democracy in
Athens while being the primary opponent of Cimon. Another figure of this name was from Trachis, and his
knowledge of a (*) small path led Hydarnes to advance behind the Greek position at a certain battle. For 10 points, identify
this name common to an Athenian statesman in the 460s B.C. who was a mentor to Pericles and the traitor at the Battle of
Thermopylae.
ANSWER: Ephialtes
5. In this writing system, ten was called “sar” and represented by an “x”, and fifty was “muvalch” and represented
by an arrow. This language can be found on the Cippus Perusinus and the Piacenza Liver, and the Pyrgi Tablets
contain both this language and Phoenician. Stress on the first syllable in this language leads to “impossible
consonants,” and this language was part of a family called (*) Tyrsenian. The emperor Claudius may have been the last
Roman able to read, for 10 points, what language spoken by the inhabitants of a pre-Roman Italian culture based in Etruria.
ANSWER: Etruscan Language
6. This figure came to power because Oclatinus Adventus was too old, and this figure gave Armenia to the client king
Tiridates II. This man met the Parthian king Artabatus V at the Battle of Nisibis, and he became emperor after
convincing Julius Martialis to murder his predecessor. This emperor appointed his ten year old son Diadumenianus
as co-emperor, and he was deposed after losing a battle at Antioch against the grandson of Julia Maesa, Elagabalus.
For 15 points, identify this first man to become emperor of Rome who was not a senator, who ruled briefly from 217
to 218.
ANSWER: Marcus Opellius Macrinus
7. Before setting off for Asia, Alexander the Great visited a tomb devoted to this figure at Elaeus, and in some stories
his wife reconstructed a bronze statue of him but later jumped into the fire after her father tried to have it destroyed.
This son of Iphicles led a regiment of Phylaceans in the Trojan War and killed four men before being killed by
Hector. This man was allowed to return from the underworld for three hours to see his grieving wife Laodamia, who
subsequently stabbed herself. For 10 points, identify this cult figure, the (*) first man to step on the shore at Troy and
thus was fated to be the first to die.
ANSWER: Protesilaus
8. At one point in this work, a traveler named Chaireas saves one of the title characters from an Egyptian army and
gives her an antidote, and later pretends to decapitate her and throw her overboard. The title couple of this work
met in Tyre, and one side plot sees Callisthenes kidnap Calligone on accident. At this work's conclusion, one title
character enters the temple of Artemis proving her virginity, and is reunited with her lover in Byzantium. For 15
points, identify this romance, a Greek novel written by Achilles Tatius.
ANSWER: Leucippe and Clitophon
9. This author mused about weather and the heavens in a seven book treatise called Natural Questions, and this
author wrote a work to Marcia on the death of her son. This author wrote to Paulinus about Stoic concepts of time in
his On the Shortness of Life, and this author's tragedies include Thyestes and Hercules Furens. Another of this
author's works ends with the central character playing (*) dice in a bottomless box as a slave. For 10 points, identify
this author who flourished during the reign of Nero and satirized the death of Claudius and his transformation into a
pumpkin in his Apocolocyntosis.
ANSWER: Seneca the Younger
10. In some stories, Hera promised the eldest of these to Hypnos if he would cause Zeus to fall asleep. In addition to
Pasithea, other members of this group included Auxo, Cleta, and Hegemone. Their parents are alternately listed as
Helios and Aegle, but more commonly they are the offspring of (*) Zeus and Eurynome. One member of this group was
the wife of Hephaestus according to Homer. Usually consisting of Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, for 10 points, identify
these three Greek goddesses of beauty and charm.
ANSWER: Graces [accept Charities and Gratiae]
11. This emperor's body was supposedly so hairy that to mention a goat in his presence was punishable by death. A
prediction by the astrologer Trasyllus caused this emperor to cross the bay of Baiae on horseback, and his reign saw
the uprising of Lentulus Gaetulicus. This man brought back seashells to signify his victory over the sea, and he was
eventually murdered by (*) Cassius Chaerea. For 10 points, identify this emperor who took his name from the military
sandals he wore as a child, ruling from 37 to 41 A.D., and who once appointed his horse Incitatus a consul.
ANSWER: Caligula [accept “Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,” I guess]
12. Ancient cities found in this modern day nation include Claudioconium and Attalia, and another site in this
modern day nation contained the Library of Celsus. One inscription found in this modern day country preserved the
Res Gestae of Augustus and was known as the Monumentum Ancyranum, and this nation was home to the (*) Temple
of Artemis and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. For 10 points, identify this modern day nation home to the ancient cities of
Ancyra, Ephesus, Smyrna, and Constantinople.
ANSWER: Turkey
13. According to legend, this poet jumped off of a cliff after falling in love with a ferryman named Phaon. One work
of this poet addresses the “iridescent-throned,” “deathless,” and “wile-weaver” child of Zeus and ends with the line
“fight as my comrade.” This poet had a daughter named Cleis, and another of this author's poems reads (*) “That
man seems to me peer of gods, who sits in thy presence.” The author of “Hymn to Aphrodite” and “Ode to Anactoria,” for
10 points, identify this “tenth muse,” a female lyric poet from Lesbos.
ANSWER: Sappho
14. One scene from a frieze on this building depicts Rhea riding on a lion, and Carl Humann led the excavations of
this site. A frieze in this building surrounding the central fire depicts the life of Telephus, and this piece is located in
the same museum as reconstructed versions of the Ishtar Gate and the Market Gate of Miletus. Depicting the war
between the gods and the giants, for 10 points, identify this huge altarpiece constructed during the rule of Eumenes
II which was reconstructed and housed in a namesake museum in (*) Berlin and shares its town with an Asiatic
Kingdom.
ANSWER: Pergamon Altar
15. In some stories, this group of people maliciously mixed the waters of the Styx with sulphur and poured them on
plants and animals, and in some stories this group were children of Thalassa and Pontus who had dog heads and
flippers instead of hands. This group consisted of nine figures, and along with Caphira they raised Poseidon. This
group fashioned Cronus's sickle and Poseidon's trident, and were the first people to create statues of the gods.
Banished to Tartatus by Zeus for their sorcery, for 15 points, identify this people of craftsman and metallurgists, a
race of wizards who were the original inhabitants of Rhodes.
ANSWER: Telchines [prompt on Corybantes]
16. One conflict involving this people began with the death of King Teleklos at a festival to Artemis Limnatis. A
second conflict involving this people included the Battle of Deres and saw the generals Anaxander, Anaxidamus, and
the poet Tyrtaeus defeat a force led by Aristomenes. A group of this people was massacred at the Temple of Poseidon
in Taenarus, and a major revolt by these people coincided with a large earthquake. These people were sometimes
divided into mothakes and mothones classes based on the extent of freedom they enjoyed. For 10 points, identify these
people originally taken from (*) Messenia, the slave population in Sparta.
ANSWER: helots [prompt on Spartans, accept Messenians early, since the first clues describe the Messenian Wars and
helots became synonymous with them]
17. Heracles defeated an army of Ligurians trying to steal his cattle when Zeus used these objects to drive them
away, and a group of dwarves called the Cercopes were turned into these objects for trying to deceive Zeus. A
weeping one of these objects can be found of Mt. Sipylus where (*) Niobe was turned into one of these after the death of
her children. Ultimately, King Polydectes was turned into one of these as a punishment for his treatment of Danae. For 10
points, identify these objects, the end result of looking into Medusa's eyes.
ANSWER: stones [accept equivalents like “rocks”]
18. One speaker in this work notes that Romans worship for the sole purpose of being able to conquer, and auguries
are neglected for undesired results but followed with indications of good fortune. Modeled after Cicero's On the
Nature of the Gods, this central discussion of this work begins on the way to the marine baths of Ostia, when one of
the characters prays to an image of Serapis. This work influenced the works of Cyprian and Tertullian's
Apologeticum, and it consists of a dialogue between the pagan Caecilius Natalis and the title lawyer. For 15 points,
identify this greatest apology for Christianity, written by Marcus Minucius Felix.
ANSWER: Octavius
19. This man's father was a governor of Transalpine Gaul who was defeated on the Campus Martius while trying to
take over Rome, and this figure was appointed Magister Equitum when Caesar was given his life dictatorship. This
figure was given command of Hispania and Africa, but he was stripped of power and exiled to Circeii when he was
accused of trying to take control of Sicily. This figure served as (*) Pontifex Maximus until his death in 12 B.C., but is
better known for his association with an alliance formed by the Lex Titia in 43 B.C. For 10 points, identify this member,
alongside Octavian and Mark Antony, of the second triumvirate.
ANSWER: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
20. The failure of this system led to the passage of the Lex Acilia in 191 B.C., and this system included components
called “nundinae.” One holiday associated with the use of this system was the Terminalia, and two components of this
system were formerly called “Quintilis” and “Sextilis.” First created by (*) Numa Pompilius, the final form of this
system was devised with the mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria and was implemented by extending 46 B.C. to 445
days. Including one type named for Julius Caesar, for 10 points, identify this system which organized dates and months.
ANSWER: the Roman calendar [except things like “the months in the Roman calendar, and prompt on equivalents]