The (*) Marriage of Philology and Mercury, by Martianus Capella.
In a treatise on these entities, one of the title characters does an unbelievably complicated calculation, starting with the number of letters in her name, to see if she will be found suitable by Jupiter. Vitruvius famously thanked his parents for teaching him about these entities in the preface to Book 6 of the Architecture. Three of these entities are discussed at length in Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. Nicomachus's treatises on two of these entities were translated by Boethius, who originated their most famous classification. Cassiodorus's Institutions of Divine and Secular Reading is a primer on these entities. Varro's Nine Books was a major influence on the first codification of these topics: The (*) Marriage of Philology and Mercury, by Martianus Capella. These subjects were divided into grammar, rhetoric, and logicÂ— the triviumÂ—and arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and musicÂ—the quadrivium. For 10 points, name this core of the medieval curriculum.
In a treatise on these entities, one of the title characters does an unbelievably complicated calculation, starting with the number of letters in her name, to see if she will be found suitable by Jupiter.
the liberal arts [or artes liberales; or the trivium AND quadrivium; prompt on either "trivium" or "quadrivium" until "Macrobius"]