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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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He ended his life as king of Illyricum and went to Elysium after he and his wife fulfilled a prophecy. This son of Telephassa and Agenor, the rulers of Phoenicia, succeeded at a task in which his four brothers could not. At the end of his life he and his wife Harmonia are turned into snakes, but this has occurred well after he has sown some dragon's teeth. FTP, name this brother of Europa and founder of Thebes.
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Social Science

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Robert Cook published an influential work on this figure and her children. Born at Mount Sipylus to a certain Lydian king and the goddess Dione, she was the sister of Broteas. She is represented in the third movement of Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, and her tears are mentioned in Hamlet's Act 1 soliloquy. Chloris, Ogygia, Phaedimus, Eudoxa and Damisichthon were some of her numerous children, whose father was Amphion. In one version of the myth, she is the daughter of Assaon, who burned all her children to death after she refused to commit incest with him. The sister of Pelops and daughter of Tantalus, for 10 points, name this grieving figure turned into a rock after watching Apollo and Artemis slaughter her 14 children.
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Social Science

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In one of this author's plays, the story of a bullet being thrown at a skirt helps attempt to determine the gender of the title character. That play by this author was originally an interlude to another play that also features the character Galy Gay, who transforms to the soldier Jeraiah Jip. This author of The Elephant Calf and A Man's A Man wrote another work in which a character describes his ability to draw a mark on a dissident while pretending to clap him on the back. Another scene from that play by this author sees a judge rule based on which verdict will save his job, and it also describes two physicists who feign hatred of Albert Einstein. Other plays by this author include one in which Fatty the Bookkeeper and Trinity Moses brace for a hurricane, and another in which Shen Teh pretends to be her own male cousin. For 10 points, name this playwright, author of The Good Woman of Szechuan and Mother Courage and Her Children.
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Literature