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The uproar caused by Charles Perrault’s mockery of this passage is often cited as the start of the “Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns.” This passage describes two talents of gold lying between two lawyers debating whether a blood-price should be accepted (10[1])for a murder victim. A description of a circle of young dancers in this passage leads into a simile about a potter testing the motion of a wheel. Crates (“KRAY-tees”) of Mallos saw a cosmic allegory in this passage’s description of the earth, stars, sky, and (10[1])“all-encircling Ocean.” (10[1])In this passage, scenes of a vineyard, a plowed field, (-5[1])a city at peace, (10[1])and (10[1])a city at war (10[1]-5[2])are created in a workshop (10[1])filled with (10[1])robotic (10[1])assistants, where a god toils to repay Thetis for nursing (10[1])him to health (10[1])on Lemnos. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this ekphrastic (10[1])passage (10[1])from the Iliad (10[1])depicting Hephaestus’s (10[1])creation of a defensive implement. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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