Jean Macintosh Turfa

Divining the Etruscan World

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Produktbeschreibung

The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1008g
• ISBN-13: 9781107009073
• ISBN-10: 1107009073
• Artikelnr.: 34752472

Autorenporträt

Jean MacIntosh Turfa is Rodney Young Fellow in the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Adjunct Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies at St Joseph's University, Philadelphia. She has published catalogues of collections of Etruscan antiquities as well as articles on Etruscan art, seafaring, votive offerings, and divination and medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Background: 1. The Brontoscopic Calendar and its transmission; 2.
Etruscan religion in the classical world; 3. An ominous time: thunder,
lightning, weather, and divination; Part II. The Brotoscopic Calendar:
Greek Text and English Translation; Part III. Thematic Analysis of the
Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar: 4. Analysis of the Brontoscopic Calendar;
5. 'Reptiles with trouble habitations' - weather, fauna, agriculture,
pests; 6. 'Plague, but not exceptionally life-threatening' - health and
disease; 7. 'The women and the slaves will carry out assassinations' - the
society of the Brontoscopic Calendar; Part IV. Sources and Successors of
the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar: 8. Mesopotamian influences and Near
Eastern predecessors of the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar; 9. Other
Brontoscopia in the classical tradition; 10. Conclusion: assessing the
Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar and its heritage.