Divining the Etruscan world: the brontoscopic calendar and religious practice

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 E...

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Main Author: Turfa, Jean MacIntosh 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012.
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Etruscans / Thunder / Divination / Calendar / Religion
B John, Lydus 490-559, De ostentis
Further subjects:B Omens
B Etruscans Religion
B Astronomy, Greek
B Lydus, Johannes Laurentius (490-approximately 565) De ostentis
B Etruscans ; Religion
B Calendar, Greek
B Lydus, Johannes Laurentius ; 490-approximately 565 ; De ostentis
B Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565 De ostentis
B Etruscans Religion
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Summary: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 before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.
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ISBN:0511920555
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511920554