Packet D: Bonus 13
The oldest surviving Latin text on this subject is addressed to Gaius Herennius and was a popular medieval textbook for this subject along with Cicero’s De Inventione. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this discipline that relied on pathos, logos, and ethos and formed the trivium along with logic and grammar.
ANSWER: rhetoric [accept oratory]
[10h] The most extensive ancient work on rhetoric, Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria, was presumed lost until this humanist found a copy in a Swiss monastery. This Renaissance book hunter also rediscovered De Rerum Natura.
ANSWER: Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini [or Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini]
[10m] Following Aristotle, this Latin writer emphasized the supremacy of logic in his Overview of the Study of Rhetoric. An accusation by Cyprianus led to Theodoric the Great’s execution of this author of De musica.
ANSWER: Boethius [or Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius]
<Oxford A, Other History> | Packet D - UBC B, Oxford A, Waterloo B, CWRU A
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| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 10.00 | 88% | 13% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 88% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 11.43 | 100% | 14% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |