Round 19: Tossup 12

A character created by this author looks to the audience and says there would be several statues around if he had the head of Medusa shortly after pelting a messenger with dirt clods and pears. In a five-act play by this author, the title character is thrown out of her house when she is seen breastfeeding (-5[1])a child she was ordered to expose, (10[1])when really the baby belonged to a neighbor girl seduced by the adopted son of her lover. In a play by this author preserved in the Bodmer Papyri, the curmudgeonly father gives Sostratos (-5[1])the hand (10[1])of his daughter (-5[1])after saving him from a (10[1])well; (-5[1])that play (10[1])by this author is part of a more staid genre (10[2])that emerged 100 years after a bawdier genre exemplified by the plays of Aristophanes. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, name (10[1])this (10[1])Athenian playwright who wrote (10[1])The Girl (10[1])from Samos (10[1])and Dyskolos, (10[2])the chief exponent of New Comedy. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[4])

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