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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790487803321

Autore

Turfa Jean MacIntosh <1947->

Titolo

Divining the Etruscan world : the brontoscopic calendar and religious practice / / Jean MacIntosh Turfa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-53986-8

1-107-22816-6

1-283-52192-X

1-139-52705-3

9786613834379

0-511-92055-5

1-139-52585-9

1-139-53171-9

1-139-53052-6

1-139-52824-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 408 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

299/.9294

Soggetti

Etruscans - Religion

Omens

Calendar, Greek

Astronomy, Greek

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Enthält auch Brontoscopic calendar / Johannes Lydus.

Sommario/riassunto

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.