Divining the Etruscan World
The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice
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Author
Publication
2012 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, England
Language
English
Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101107009073
- ISBN-139781107009073
- Library of Congress Control Number2011040848
- OCLC Control Number756767663
- Better World Books9781107009073
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25061390M
Classifications
- DDC299/.9294
- LCCBL813.E8 T87 2012
Description
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health, and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back the before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.
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