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Divining the Etruscan World
The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- DIVINING THE ETRUSCAN WORLD
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PART I BACKGROUND
- CHAPTER 2: ETRUSCAN RELIGION IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
- CHAPTER 3: AN OMINOUS TIME: THUNDER, LIGHTNING, WEATHER, AND DIVINATION
- PART II THE BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR: GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- PART III THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE ETRUSCAN: BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR
- PART IV: SOURCES AND SUCCESSORS OF THE ETRUSCAN BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR
- APPENDIX A: TEXTS RELATING TO THE STUDY OF ETRUSCAN RELIGION
- APPENDIX B: SAMPLE MESOPOTAMIAN DOCUMENTS AND ADDITIONAL DATA
- APPENDIX C OTHER BRONTOSCOPIA IN THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: SAMPLE TEXTS WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION
- TIMELINE OF PERSONAGES, CULTURAL PHASES, AND HISTORICAL PERIODS
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX