Packet 5: Bonus 16
In the preface to his essay Laocoön, Gotthold Lessing derides the “inexactness and falsity” of this idea and claims that the ancients correctly confined it to just effects rather than the art forms themselves. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this three-word Latin phrase that draws a link between two artistic media. Horace coined this phrase in Ars Poetica in a passage that claims “somnolence may steal over a long work” and that “even great Homer nods.”
ANSWER: ut pictura poesis [prompt on translations like “as is painting, so is poetry”]
[10m] Lessing is one of many to trace ut pictura poesis to Simonides of Ceos, whose best-known poem may be an epitaph for the dead of this event that states “Tell them … passer-by / That here, obedient to their word, we lie.”
ANSWER: Battle of Thermopylae
[10e] Alexander Pope’s embrace of ut pictura poesis is evident in his “Observations” on this object, included in his translation of the Iliad. An ekphrasis in Book 18 describes the intricate designs on this object belonging to Achilles.
ANSWER: shield of Achilles [or his shield]
<TM, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 10.00 | 78% | 11% | 11% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contessa Dora | https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | JHU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Munir Siddiqui Fan Club | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| UNC Charity | Rosslyn Academic Team | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✕ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✕ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✕ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |