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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer argued that the ideal described in this work is heuristic in nature in an essay about this work's author "and the poets. " Books six and seven of this work assert that knowledge is ultimately for the Good, which shines on intelligible essences like the sun. It asserts that love is "a tyrant" over man, and compares imaginative, real, intelligent, and abstract levels of thought to a line divided into four segments. In its first book, Thrasymachus describes justice as "the advantage of the stronger," while its seventh book likens people unaware of Forms to humans viewing shadows on the wall of a cave. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue that describes an ideal society.
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Social Science


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A speech of this ruler is recorded on the Lyon tablet, and Hadrian extended this rulers effort to drain the Fucine Lake. This ruler decreed that sick slaves left at the Temple of Aesculapius would be freed, and he upheld the rights of Egyptian Jews with his Letter to the Alexandrians. This ruler temporarily restored the autonomy of Judea, but reclaimed it as a province after the death of Herod Agrippa I. He used elephants to conquer Camulodunum, and this ruler pardoned the captured general Caratacus after sending Aulus Plautius to conquer Britain. The freedman Narcissus wielded power under this man and helped to expose the plot of his wife Messalina. He was poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina. For 10 points, name successor to Caligula, the dice-playing fourth Roman emperor.
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History


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The commander of the losing force at this battle advanced from Melanthias following the orders of a man named Sebastian, while the Sarmatian commander Victor argued against any action. According to historian Charles Oman, this battle cemented the strength of the cavalry formation and changed the style of warfare for the Roman army, and in this battle a legion of scutarii was commanded by Bacurius the Iberian. This battle was preceded by the Battle of the Willows, and the winning commander at this battle was aided by the generals Alatheus and Saphrax. Taking place after a certain tribe crossed the Danube and won by the commander Fritigern, this battle left Gratian and Valentinian II in charge of the empire. For 10 points, identify this disastrous defeat of the Roman army which saw the death of the emperor Valens, a victory for the Goths in 378 A.D.
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History