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.

The earliest discovered writings on these were in the Hittite language and were authored by Kikkuli of Mitanni, while Gryson, an expert on these, helped Xenophon to write two treatises on the subject. Tupac Amaru II and Francois Ravaillac were both executed using four of these, and one of these named Incitatus was legendarily appointed as a Roman senator by Caligula. The Avars brought an invention that eased their use to Europe, and huge masses of these were instrumental in saving the French army at Eylau. Many cities were named after of these owned by Alexander the Great, Bucephalus. For 10 points, name these animals used to transport hussars and knights.
Literature

The tenth, written in E major, attempts to imitate the sound of a cimbalom through use of fast arpeggios and tremolos. The fourth was written in D minor and designated Lento A Capriccio, while the first of them was written in F minor and designated Lento Quasi Marcia Funebre. The Horowitz transcription of its last disregards much of the lassan section. Entitled Rakoczy March, this fifteenth section is not as famous as the second in D minor, which most may recognize from cartoons. FTP, identify this series of fifteen sketches based on Gypsy music by Franz Liszt.
Fine Arts

In this novel the protagonist's husband has recently become a disc jockey for KCUF radio, and her psychiatrist admits to having been a Nazi doctor at Buchenwald. The Paranoids refer her to The Courier's Tragedy, a play that she sees and after which the mystery begins. In the course of executing the will of Pierce Inverarity the protagonist meets the inventor John Nefastis and the stamp expert Gengis Cohen. Ending with the anticipation of the titular part of an auction at which Oedipa Mass hopes to discover more about the Tristero, FTP, name this novel by Thomas Pynchon.

Literature