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9781107009073

Divining the Etruscan World

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107009073

  • ISBN10:

    1107009073

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-07-16
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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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.

Table of Contents

Background
The Brontoscopic Calendar and its transmission
Etruscan religion in the classical world
An ominous time: thunder, lightning, weather, and divination
The Brotoscopic Calendar: Greek Text and English Translation
Thematic Analysis of the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar
Analysis of the Brontoscopic Calendar
'Reptiles with trouble habitations' - weather, fauna, agriculture, pests
'Plague, but not exceptionally life-threatening' - health and disease
'The women and the slaves will carry out assassinations' - the society of the Brontoscopic Calendar
Sources and Successors of the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar
Mesopotamian influences and Near Eastern predecessors of the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar
Other Brontoscopia in the classical tradition
Conclusion: assessing the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar and its heritage
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