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Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice

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Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice - Turfa, Jean MacIntosh
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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 ...

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Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice 2012, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107009073

Hardcover