Packet 8: Tossup 11

In a work by this author, a man is baffled after hearing that the Scythians make sacrifices to their “enemies” Orestes and Pylades in honor of their close friendship. This author of Toxaris recalled seeing a picture showing men whose ears are chained to the tongue of the god Ogmios. This author (10[1])described two huge statues of phalli inside a temple of Atargatis in Hierapolis in his home region. One of this author’s narrators observes a banquet where Pythagoras refuses (-5[1])to eat beans. Hermes complains about his overwork to his mother Maia in one of this author’s (10[1])Dialogues of the Gods. (10[2])A short 2nd-century (10[1])CE narrative by this (10[1])author (10[1])describes travelers who sail past the pillars of (-5[1])Hercules, find an island made of cheese, (10[2])get eaten (10[1])by (10[1])a whale, and go to the Moon. (10[3])For 10 points, name this Greek author from Samosata who wrote (10[1])A True History. (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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