Are You a Priest(ess) of Minerva?

Would you like to become a "Maru Menervas/Sacerdos Minervae", a member of the priesthood of the Etrusco-Italic Goddess of Wisdom and the Protector of Culture? To join the priesthood, just test your knowledge of the great goddess!

These AW personae are the honored members of the 'Menervas Marunuchva': Tanaquil Sergius, Tinscvil Sergius, Menerva Caesar, Caila Sempronius, Veilia Velcha Sempronius, Gaius Caligula Caesar, Kallistos Alexandros, Avle Velimna Volumnius, Camilla Lucretius, Kyria Hippocrates, Artemis Pericles, Auluss Tullius.



Author Tanaquil Sergius

1. According to some linguists, the Etrusco-Italic name Menerva means:
   A)  gifted with beauty
   B)  gifted with spirit
   C)  gifted with knowledge
   D)  gifted with power

2. One of the Menerva temples found in Etruria, near the harbor city of Pyrgi, is believed to have been dedicated to:
   A)  Minerva Soaemias
   B)  Minerva Medica
   C)  Minerva Victrix
   D)  Minerva Mater

3. In Etruscan iconographical material, Menerva is very often depicted as the protector of the hero
   A)  Odysseus
   B)  Perseus
   C)  Achilles
   D)  Hercules

4. The Quinquatrus, celebrated in Rome on March 19th-24th, was the festival dedicated to Minerva as the protector of
   A)  food and fresh water
   B)  doctors and patients
   C)  teachers and pupils
   D)  husbands and wives

5. In Rome, Minerva is most likely to be depicted wearing a helmet. The Etruscan Menerva can also be depicted wearing
   A)  a cap
   B)  a diadem
   C)  a veil
   D)  a wreath of flowers

6. With which gods Menerva formed the supreme triad of the Etruscan pantheon?
   A)  Laran and Thesan
   B)  Fufluns and Cilens
   C)  Aplu and Artumes
   D)  Tin and Uni

7. Menerva is very much like the Greek diety Pallas Athena, but Menerva has an attribute Athena doesn't have. What is it?
   A)  a globe
   B)  an eagle
   C)  a bolt of lightning
   D)  a chariot

8. Menerva/Minerva is a virgin, like Athena, but also the protector of babies and little children, like Athena. As Christianity became the state religion in the Roman Empire, Minerva's temples got converted into churches dedicated to
   A)  the Holy Spirit
   B)  the Holy Virgin
   C)  the Holy Mother
   D)  the Holy Family

9. As an oracle divinity in Etruria, Menerva was linked to which divinity?
   A)  Fufluns
   B)  Aplu
   C)  Culsans
   D)  Tin

10. Another attribute of Etruscan Menerva, that both Greek Athena and Roman Minerva don't have is
   A)  a staff
   B)  a sword
   C)  wings
   D)  a snake