Etruscan or Roman name acceptable. According to Varro’s On the Latin Language, a statue of this deity stood in the “Tuscan Row” because he was the chief god of Etruria. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this chthonic deity whose fanum, possibly in modern-day Orvieto, may have been the meeting place of the Etruscan League. An August festival in Rome recounted the myth of Pomona and this deity’s Roman equivalent.
ANSWER: Voltumna [or Veltha; accept Fanum Voltumnae; accept Vertumnus or Vortumnus or Vertimnus; accept Vertumnalia]
[10m] In Early Rome and the Latins, Andreas Alföldi describes the Voltumna statue standing near a temple to these figures. Zeus made these brothers immortal after fathering one of them with Leda.
ANSWER: Dioscuri [or the Dioskouroi; or Castor AND Pollux; or Polydeuces; accept Gemini or Castores; accept Tyndaridae or Tyndarids]
[10e] The leaders of the Etruscan dodecapoli met at a sacred location containing these plants outside the Fanum Voltumnae. Dryads inhabit a type of these plants sacred to Zeus, material from one of which in Dodona made up the Argo’s prow.
ANSWER: trees [accept oak trees or oaks]
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