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 (-5[1])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. (-5[1])People of this type include the first man, Keyumars, as well as Kay Kāvus, in a 50,000 (10[1])verse poem partly named for them. (10[1])For 10 points, what rulers title an epic (10[1])that narrates the deeds of Rostam, written by Ferdowsi? ■END■ (10[1])

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