One of these events involving the author’s friend Catullus nearly occurs in Juvenal’s twelfth Satire. The title characters are kidnapped by bandits after one of these events in Book 3 of The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (“loo-KIP-ee and CLY-tuh-fon”). In the Satyricon, an old tutor tells a story about the faithful “woman of Ephesus” shortly before one of these events that results in the death of Lichas. Sarah Ruden translated a line delivered after one of these events as “Someday you may recall today with pleasure.” A prologue narrated by the star Arcturus details one of these events involving Ampelisca, Palaestra, and the pimp Labrax that instigates the plot of Plautus’s play The Rope. Zeus sends a lightning strike to cause one of these events after Odysseus’s men eat Helios’s cattle. For 10 points, ancient literary accounts of what type of event inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest? ■END■
ANSWER: shipwrecks [or maritime disasters; accept descriptions of disasters at sea or disasters involving a ship; prompt on sea storms or thunderstorms by asking “the storm leads to what type of event?”] (The fourth sentence refers to a speech given by Aeneas to his men after they reach dry land in the Aeneid.)
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