Ludi Megalenses 2762 AUC (Nova Roma)

RULES:

1. Each correct answer is worth 1 point. An extra point may be awarded for an especially detailed and excellent answer.

2. Answers are to be sent to this e-mail address before 12.01 am MT - Mountain Time (GMT -7hrs / CET -8hrs) April 10th.

3. The decision of the aedilis is final in interpreting what is and what isn't a correct answer.

Day 1 (April 5th)

Question #1. An ugly grandson of Zeus was famous for what in respect of Cybele?

Question #2. What was the name of this grandson?

Question #3. A carving of Cybele has been confused with a natural rock formation associated with an Anatolian princess. What was her name?

Question #4. The author of a “Description of Greece” mentioned this princess. What was the name of this author?

Question #5. The sculptor who carved a monumental gateway to the Acropolis in Athens had a pupil who became famous for carving an image of Cybele. What was the name of this pupil?

Question #6. In the carving the pupil made what does Cybele’s hand rest on?

Question #7. A Roman consul with a pointed nose had a connection with Cybele. What was his full name?

Question #8. The former Greek colony of Dicaearchia saw the first advent of a practice in relation to Cybele. What was this practice?

Question #9. Ardea was the capital city of a tribe that had a connection in legend to an event concerning Cybele. What was that event?

Question #10. What is the connection between the defeat of the German tribes in 102 BCE and Cybele?

Day 2 (April 6th)

Question #11. The adopted son of the ruler of the city of Gordium is famous for his connection with Cybele and for another less noble reason. (a) What was the connection with Cybele? (b) What was the less noble reason?

Question #12. An object removed to Rome in 210 BCE came from where?

Question #13. The mad driver of a lion chariot connected with Cybele was who?

Question #14. A defiler of a ceremony of the Good Goddess, had a sister. She had a lover who had a connection with Cybele. What is the name of that lover?

Question #15. The lover is also known for his connection to Cybele by a number. What is it?

Question #16. In the first and second years following the removal of Cybele to Rome, two battles were fought and won by the victor of Ilipa in Hispania. The first captured a city and the second failed to stop a march to Italia. What were the names and years of those battles?

Question #17. What is the connection to Cybele between a purchase made by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus and the Pythia?

Question #18. After a fire in 288 CE what was rebuilt that had a connection to Cybele?

Question #19.A festival commemorating the death and rebirth into a pine tree was called what in the Augustan History?

Question #20. What did Theodore the Recruit do instead of reflecting?

Day 3 (April 7th)

Question #21. A track between the Aventine and Palatine hills has a connection to Cybele. What is it?

Question #22. The correct answer to Q21 has a date associated with it. What is the date?

Question #23. Julia Augusta had a visual connection with Cybele. What was it and whose wife was she?

Question #24. Six years before the removal to Rome of Cybele, a battle was fought near the Aufidus River. What was the name and date of the battle?

Question #25. The patron of Carchemish was indentified in a paper published by Mark Munn in 2004 as having an important home in Lydia. (a) Who was the patron of Carchmish? (b) What the home in Lydia?

Question #26. In Archaic Phrygian images of Cybele she is portrayed as wearing a sertain type of hat. What was its shape and what is its name?

Question #27. What is the connection between the actress Polly Walker and Cybele?

Question #28. What is the connection between the actress Kerry Condon and Cybele?

Question #29. What was a cheaper rite of Magna Mater involving a ram called?

Question #30. The cult of the Magna Mater was fully accepted into Roman life and customs by the time of a successor to Augustus' family cognomen. Who was this person giving his full Roman name?

Day 4 (April 8th)

Question #31. What name is the rock associated with Niobe known by on Mount Sipylus?

Question #32. Two plants were sacred to Attis, ivy and the evergreen pine. What was the significance of the Evergreen Pine?

Question #33. Priests of Cybele who mutilated themselves were known in Rome as what?

Question #34. What was the other name for these priests?

Question #35. In the year 2000, a temple of Isis and Magna Mater was discovered, along with 300 oil lamps. Where was this?

Question #36. The Temple of the Magna Mater in Rome was built between which years?

Question #37. How many senators were in the embassy sent to Pessinus to secure the Magna Mater?

Question #38. What was the name of the Praetor who inaugurated and dedicated the temple of the Magna Mater?

Question #39. What was the ancient Greek title for Cybele?

Question #40. What did the "moretum" offering consist of?

Day 5 (April 9th)

Question #40. What did the "moretum" offering consist of?

Question #41. What was the name of the battle that was fought in the spring of 215 BCE between Hasdrubal Barca and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Publius Cornelius Scipio?

Question #42. On a piece of famous armour the tympanon of Cybele lies at the feet of the goddess Tellus. What is that armour?

Question #43. A Vestal Virgin welcomed the arrival of Cybele, along with the Consul. What was her name?

Question #44. What could the chief priest of Magna Mater be, if he was not something? What was that something?

Question #45. What was the name of the Roman poet who lived 99 BCE- ca. 55 BCE who used Cybele as a metaphor?

Question #46. The ship carrying the black stone from Pessinus got stuck in the mud of the Tiber. The Vestal sent to welcome it, used an item to free it. What was it?

Question #47. In the Hilaria what occurred on the 24th March?

Question #48. Who was the head of the embassy sent to Pessinus to secure the Magna Mater?

Question #49. Which philosopher was put to death by his countrymen for trying to introduce the cult of Cybele?

Question #50. What was the nature of this philosopher' s society that made it antagonistic to Cybele?

Final Results

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