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1. Dante Alighieri. 2. Aref Qazvini. 3. Voltaire. Clue: Dante Alighieri was a poet Clue:Aref Qazvini was an Iranian Clue:Voltaire was a French and prose writer from medieval poet and musician. Often cal led philosopher, writer, and poet of Florence, Italy, who profoundly a National Poet of Iran, he was a the Enlightenment. He was one impacted European literature. revolutionary during the Iranian of the most versitile poets and He is most famous for authoring Constitutional Revolution and wits of his time. He is shown the Christian epic poem La made many political and here holding a red lamb, a divina commedia. Dante is pro-revolutionary songs. reference to his 1759 satirical credited with inventing the novella Candide. poetic form used in The Divine Comedy, known as terza rima.

4. Laozi. 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 6. Maqamat-ut-Tuyur. Clue: Laozi was a philosopher in Clue: Ralph Waldo Emerson was Clue: "The Conference of the ancient China. He is the author an American writer, poet, and Birds," or "Maqamat-ut-Tuyor," of the Tao Te Ching, an import­ leader of the Transcendentalist is a poem completed circa 1187. ant text from Chinese history Movement, which argued that The poem concerns a congrega­ consisting of 81 short, poetic people were essentially good tion of birds, led by a wise sections. He is a central figure and capable of self-improve­ hoopoe, that embark on a both in philosophical and ment. journey. Through their experi­ religious Taoism. ences and the hoopoe's parables and counsel, the birds are cleansed of their egos and attain enlightenment.

7. Frog at the Bottom of a Well. 8. Plato. 9. Mark Twain. Clue: On this wel I is the Clue: Plato was a Greek philoso­ Clue: Mark Twain is one of traditional Chinease story of a pher from Athens who was a America's most famous authors. frog that lived its entire life at student of Socrates and a His books and poetry captured the bottom of a wel I. The frog teacher of Aristotle. His writings the sound and humor of life in believed the well to be the are among the most influential nineteenth century America. entire world until a turtle fell in Western philosophy, into the wel I and informed the frog of a much wider and more spectac-ular world than the frog could ever have imagined.

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10. Oscar Wilde Quote. 11. Proverbs. 12. Oxyrhynchus Papryi. Clue: "Every portrait that is Clue: The Book of Proverbs is a Clue:The Oxyrhynchus Papryi painted with feeling is a portrait book of the Hebrew Bible and were an enormous cache of of the artist, not of the sitter." the Old Testament of the Greco-Roman manuscripts and Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet Christian Bible. The proverbs poems discovered near the and playwright. Wilde is best contained in this anthology ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, known for his witty comedies of contain traditional poetic Egypt, at the turn of the 20th manners such as The Impor­ devices and typically advises century by British papyrologists tance of Being Earnest and An readers on moral behavior and Bernard Pyne Grenfel I and Ideal Husband. the wisest ways to worship God. Arthur Surridge Hunt.

13. Rosario Castellanos. 14. Kojiki. 15. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Clue: Rosario Castel la nos was a Clue:Known in English as An Clue: One of civilization's oldest Mexican poet and a member of Account ofAncient Matters, the preserved epic poems, "The the influential Generation of Kojiki dates to the early 8th Epic of Gilgamesh," relates the 1950. She was also an advocate century. The Kojiki chronicles narrative of a king who ruled the for women's rights. the myths and legends, through Mesopotamian city-state of songs, poems, and stories, Uruk, defeated powerful surrounding the origin of the opponents dispatched by the Japanese archipelago and gods, and undertook a journey traces the genealogy of Japan's to find a plant that grants rulers. immortality.

16. Shahnemah. 17. Nymphs of the Stream. 18. Clue:Written by Abul-Qasim Clue: Anti pater of Thessalonica Clue: Pablo Neruda was a Chilean Ferdowsi Tusi between 977 and was a Roman statesman who poet, diplomat, and winner of 1010, "The Shahnemah," is the was governor of the Greek city the Nobel Prize. He is consid­ national epic of Iran. It is the of Thessalonica. His epigrams ered one of the greatest writers longest epic poem written by a described the people and events of the twentieth century. single poet and documents the of the period, including the first history of the Persian Empire. recorded description of water­ wheel technology in a poem, an epigram titled, "Nymphs of the Stream."

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