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 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 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 treasures” of Nizami’s Khamsa. People of this type include the first man, Keyumars, as well as Kay (10[1])Kāvus, in a 50,000 verse poem partly named for them. (10[1])For 10 points, what (10[1])rulers title an epic that narrates the deeds of Rostam, written by Ferdowsi? ■END■

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