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 lambasts an “ocean of superstitions” in its opening encomium.
ANSWER: In Praise of Folly [or The Praise of Folly; or Stultitiae Laus] (by Erasmus)
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