Weekend QoD: October 11: Answers & Points

[wintergreen48]

1. The epic’s name is: The Iliad
The epic’s language is: Greek
The epic’s author is: Homer

2. The epic’s name is: The Odyssey
The epic’s language is: Greek
The epic’s author is: Homer

3. The epic’s name is: The Aeneid
The epic’s language is: Latin
The epic’s author is: Publius Vergilius Maro, aka Virgilius, aka Vergil, aka Virgil
Note: the hero of The Aeneid is Aeneas, and the Queen of Carthage is Dido, leading to Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, which is cool, but lends itself to some naughty parody titles that I will leave to Skippy

4. The epic’s name is: The Comedy (which is what he called it), aka The Divine Comedy (the separate segments are Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso)
The epic’s language is: Italian (Tuscan dialect at the time, which became standard Italian, largely due to Dante
The epic’s author is: Dante Alighieri

5. The epic’s name is: The Song of Roland
The epic’s language is: (Old) French

6. The epic’s name is: Beowulf
The epic’s language is: (Old) English

7. The opera’s name is: Prince Igor
The opera’s language is: Russian
The opera’s composer is: Alexander Borodin
(BONUS): The language of the original epic is: Old Church Slavonic (Slavonic is OK)


Points:
Jarnon = 14
a1mamacat = 8
Bob ### = 16
Marley = 13
KillerTomato = 17
kroxquo = 15
NellyLunatic = 9
jbillygirl = 19
frogman = 11
jsuchard = 16
weyoun = 20 (perfect score!)
confessor = 18
VADame = 16
AndrewJackson = 16
Macrae = 19
plasticene = 20 (perfect score!)
tanstaafl = 15
AnnieCamaro = 18
LynPayne = 20 (perfect score!)
sportsfan = 6
wheresfanny = 18, which I should reduce to 0 as punishment for that ~!@#$%^&* avatar

[WheresFanny]

wheresfanny = 18, which I should reduce to 0 as punishment for that ~!@#$%^&* avatar

Since I'm sure you couldn't possibly have anything against Hello Diva Kitty, you must be referring to my previous avatar. So what have you got against Renaldo Balkman?

PS I thought you'd actually carried through on your threat for Sunday's scores. But I looked to point out my answers and see that apparently I didn't. Can I just tell you that I would have gotten 33 points and let you take it from there?