Packet 2: Tossup 4

To supersede this doctrine, the Petelia Tablet and other Hellenic gold leafs known by a German term give instructions such as saying “the Bacchic one has (15[1])released me!” (15[1])This doctrine creates a nine-part hierarchy from winged philosophers down to tyrants in the Allegory of the Chariot from the Phaedrus. Anchises demonstrates this doctrine by showing Aeneas the faces (15[1])of Romulus (-5[2])and Julius Caesar. (15[1])According to Diogenes Laërtius, a thinker’s belief in this doctrine (15[1])led him to stop a (15[1])(*) dog from being (10[2])beaten. (10[4]-5[1])In the (10[1])Republic, (10[3])Socrates (10[1])illustrates (10[1])this (10[1])doctrine (10[2])with the myth of Er, who watches people (10[1])receive lottery tokens and drink from the river Lethe to forget. (10[1])In Orphic (-5[1])and Pythagorean forms of this doctrine, (10[1])the indestructible psyche undergoes metempsychosis. (10[1])For 10 points, what cyclic process is governed by karma? ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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