The names of the deities of this people were inscribed into a bronze sheep liver used for haruspicy and discovered near Piacenza (“pie-ah-SHEN-zah”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this people, whose triad of gods Tinia (“TEE-nee-ah”), Uni (“OO-nee”), and Menrva (“men-ER-wa”) inspired another civilization’s Capitoline Triad.
ANSWER: Etruscans [accept Etruria or Etrurian culture; or Rasenna or Rasna; accept Tyrrhenia or Tyrrhenian; prompt on Italians]
[10e] A well-preserved Etruscan terracotta statue from Veii depicts an equivalent of this Greek and Roman deity. This twin brother of Diana was a god of archery and music.
ANSWER: Apollo [or Apollon or Aplu]
[10m] This author described how Vertumnus, a Roman god adapted from the Etruscans, seduced Pomona in one of the various mythological transformations he chronicled in a 15-book narrative poem.
ANSWER: Ovid [or Publius Ovidius Naso] (The work is Metamorphoses.)
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