Question

Strabo claimed that these people received their name because they wandered like birds, though Herodotus asserted their distinguishing feature was that they had never left their home. An Argive namesake of these (-5[1])people gives refuge to the daughters of Danaus in Aeschylus’s Suppliants, while Pausanias credited another namesake of these people with fathering Lycaon. These people, whose origin is also variously listed as Crete or Thessaly, were descended from an (-5[1])autochthonous son of Zeus and Niobe. These people established worship of the Cabeiri, (-5[2])and also that of Zeus at Dodona. A goddess dances over the waters in a (*) constructed matriarchal creation myth of this (10[1])most (10[2])ancient people of Greece. For 10 points, (10[1])Robert Graves told an (10[1])alleged (-5[1])creation myth of what people, in which Eurynome lays an egg that is then encircled (-5[1])by a serpent? (10[2])■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: Pelasgians [or Pelasgoi; accept Pelasgus]
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Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2025 RMP Fest Online Mirror05/31/25Y450%0%75%134.00
2025 RMP Fest Carleton Mirror07/13/25Y367%0%0%107.50
2025 RMP Fest CO Mirror08/10/25Y667%0%50%114.25