Question

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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Summary

2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY918.8989%56%44%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY722.86100%71%57%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1215.83100%33%25%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY920.00100%44%56%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY718.5786%57%43%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY1024.00100%90%50%

Data

Rowan A (DII)Bard A (UG)001010
Columbia A (UG)Rutgers A (UG)10101030
Maryland B (DII)Lehigh A (UG)010010
NYU BLehigh B (DII)0101020
Maryland A (DII)Columbia J (DII)10101030
Columbia BPenn B (DII)1010020
Princeton A (UG)Rutgers B010010