Round 2: Tossup 1

In a poem, a woman in white tells one of these people a story in which a falling pumpkin is among the divine interruptions that keep a man from having sex out of wedlock. In another poem, one of these people competes with a sculptor who carves a staircase into a mountain for the love (15[1])of a woman whom he had met bathing nude in a stream. A princess in the red dome of Mars tells one of these people (15[1])a story resembling Turandot in an erotic poem in which the days of the week correspond to (*) “Seven Beauties.” One of these people marries the Christian Shirin in one of the “five (-5[1])treasures” of Nizami’s (10[1])Khamsa. People of this type include the first man, Keyumars, as well as Kay Kāvus, in a 50,000 verse poem partly named for them. For 10 (10[1])points, what rulers title an epic that (10[1])narrates the deeds of Rostam, written by Ferdowsi? ■END■ (10[1])

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