Question

A professor of this language who is slowly going blind teaches it to a mute woman in a 2011 Han Kang novel that was translated (20[1])into English in 2023. A book in this language is the only possession of László de Almásy that survives a plane crash in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. A city drinks its dead king's blood in the title "Communion Rite" of Wole Soyinka's adaptation (20[1])of a play in this language. The blind man (*) Seven Seas represents an (0[1])author who used this language in a poem that reimagines his characters as St. Lucian fishermen. A gay romance novel inspired by a work in this language was the debut novel of Madeline Miller. For 10 points, a work in what language inspired Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Ancient Greek [or Classical Greek; or Hellēnikḗ; accept Greek Lessons; reject "modern Greek"]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y3100%67%0%73.33