Question

In a play by this author, Hermione tells Cleone that she “loved” Pyrrhus “too much not to hate him,” before asking Orestes to kill him. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who also wrote a play in which a queen falls in love with Theseus’s son despite his love for the princess Aricia.
ANSWER: Jean Racine [or Jean-Baptiste Racine]
[10e] Racine’s only comedy, The Litigants, adapts this Greek author’s play The Wasps.
ANSWER: Aristophanes
[10h] A Racine character with this job poisons his stepbrother and abducts his stepbrother’s fiancée. Grace Frick translated a novel in which a character with this job tells Mark about wanting to “seduce everyone and everything, even History.”
ANSWER: Roman emperor [prompt on politician or ruler] (The Racine play is Britannicus. The novel is Memoirs of Hadrian.)
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Stanford ABerkeley B10101030
Stanford CBerkeley C010010
Berkeley AStanford B1010020
GWU A (UG)Duke A (UG)010010
Maryland A (Grad)Virginia B (UG)010010
Virginia A (UG)Maryland B (UG)010010
Maryland C (DII)Liberty C (DII)010010
UNC A (Grad)Roanoke College A (DII)010010
UNC B (UG)Liberty A (Grad)1010020
William & Mary A (UG)UNC C (UG)010010
Minnesota BArizona State010010
Iowa StateMinnesota C0101020
Claremont ATexas A010010
UW ARice A1010020
Texas A&M AUBC A0000
Texas A&M BMichigan State A010010
KenyonMichigan A010010
Columbia AHaverford1010020
Johns HopkinsVassar1010020
John JayNYU B1010020
PennNYU A1010020
Columbia BRowan010010
Cambridge ABristol1010020
Oxford ACambridge B010010
Durham ADurham B010010
Imperial AOxford C010010
KielImperial B010010
EdinburghKCL1010020
WarwickSheffield010010
MTSUGeodesic10101030
Georgia Tech BSouth Carolina010010
TennesseeVanderbilt B010010
Vanderbilt AKentucky010010