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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