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Divining the Etruscan World

Divining the Etruscan World

Turfa, Jean Macintosh

Hardcover

Comparative ReligionAncient History General

ISBN10: 1107009073
ISBN13: 9781107009073
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 16 2012
Pages: 432
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.40 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.10
Language: English
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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