Packet F: Tossup 15

Both the Worcester Hunt and the Megalopsychia Hunt floor mosaics were found in this city’s suburb of Daphne. This city’s Church of Cassian displayed a jeweled tunic donated by Justinian I (10[1]-5[1])after one of two major sixth-century earthquakes in an anecdote recorded by a (10[1])chronicler (-5[1])from (10[1])this city, (10[2])John Malalas. (10[4])Julian (10[1])the Apostate (10[1])wrote (10[1])the satire (10[1])Misopogon (10[3])after this city’s (10[1])Christians (10[2])made fun of his beard. (10[1])Khosrow (10[1])I sacked this city (10[3])and founded (10[1])a (10[2])settlement (10[5])called (10[2])“Better-than-” (10[3])this (10[2])city (10[4])to deport (10[3])its population (10[2])to. (10[2])This city’s patriarch was part of the Pentarchy (10[1]-5[1])along with those (10[1])of Rome, (10[1])Alexandria, (10[2])Jerusalem, and Constantinople. (10[11])This (10[1])city (10[1])on the Orontes River (10[1])was named for either the (10[1])father (-5[1])or son of its founder, Seleucus I Nicator. (10[2])For 10 points, name this city that was the capital (-5[1])of Roman Syria. ■END■ (10[5]0[13])

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