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This figure’s Etruscan counterparts, often depicted with Vanth, swing hammers at Laris Pulenas’s head in a sarcophagus relief. Deadly vapors spill from this figure’s sacred cave of Aornum (“ah-OR-num”). Seneca relates how Hercules overpowered this figure with his own pole. In The Frogs, the slave Xanthias is forced to run around a lake by this figure, who discusses (20[1])frog-swan songs with Dionysus. During his (*) katabasis, Aeneas pacified this child of Erebus and Nyx with a golden bough. (10[1])An obol (10[1])(“OH-bull”) placed in the mouth, rather than over the eyes, (10[1])is given to this (10[1])psychopomp of the Acheron (“AK-er-on”), who forces (10[1])the unburied to wait 100 years before receiving transport. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[2])name this ferryman of the Styx (10[3])who guides souls to Hades. (10[5])■END■ (10[13])

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