Question
Alcofribas Nasier’s discovery of a society living in Pantagruel’s mouth in Gargantua and Pantagruel was likely inspired by this author’s description of a strange city inside the belly of a whale. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who satirized historians such as Herodotus as liars bound for damnation in a novel whose narrator is taken by a storm to the moon after traveling past the Pillars of Hercules.
ANSWER: Lucian of Samosata (The novel is A True Story.)
[10e] The final story from Lucian’s satire Lover of Lies was the basis of this narrative poem by Goethe about a klutzy young magician. It was popularized by a version featuring Mickey Mouse in Disney’s Fantasia.
ANSWER: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” [or “Der Zauberlehrling”]
[10m] A letter to Thomas More cited Lucian as the chief inspiration for this satirical essay by a Dutch author. The title goddess of this essay lambastes an “ocean of superstitions” in its opening encomium.
ANSWER: In Praise of Folly [or The Praise of Folly; or Stultitiae Laus] (by Erasmus)
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 40% | 60% | 40% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
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