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The Chorizontes (“KOH-ree-ZON-tees”), or “separators,” were a faction of critics from this place who believed that the Iliad and Odyssey were by different poets. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this location. Many scholars have mourned the loss of thousands of papyrus scrolls when Julius Caesar burned this ancient repository of knowledge.
ANSWER: Library of Alexandria [accept Bibliotheca Alexandrina; prompt on Mouseion; prompt on Alexandrian school]
[10m] A head librarian at Alexandria who had this name hailed from Byzantium and invented the comma. A playwright of this name critiqued intellectuals through an agon, or debate, between Superior and Inferior Arguments.
ANSWER: Aristophanes [accept Aristophanes of Byzantium] (That scene appears in The Clouds.)
[10h] Many librarians at Alexandria produced these notes and comments on authors such as Homer and Hesiod. Critics inserted these glosses, known by a Greek or Latin name, directly into the text of works they analyzed.
ANSWER: scholia [or scholium or scholion; prompt on marginalia]
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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2413.7596%33%8%