Divining the Etruscan World : the Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice.

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turfa, Jean MacIntosh
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a ETRUSCAN EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR THUNDER-DIVINATION: TRUTNUT FRONTAC -- CLASSICAL TEXTS: GREEK AND LATIN WRITTEN SOURCES ON ETRUSCAN DIVINATION -- THUNDER AND LIGHTNING IN CLASSICAL RELIGION -- ETRUSCAN CELESTIAL DEITIES IN REPRESENTATIONAL (AND NONREPRESENTATIONAL) ART -- ETRUSCAN TRIDENTS, BIDENTALIA, AND NEAR EASTERN EQUIVALENTS -- CONCLUSION -- PART II THE BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR: GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- DIARIUM TONITRUALE -- ΕΦΗΜΕΡΟΣ ΒΡΟΝΤΟΣΚΟΠIΑ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ΣΕΛΗΝΗΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΝΦΙΓΟΥΛΟΝ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΤΑΓΗΤΟΣ ΚΑΘ'ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΕΞΙΝ -- MHNI IOΥNIΩ -- IOΥΛIOΣ -- ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΣ -- ΣEΠTEMBPIOΣ -- OKTΩBPIOΣ -- NOEMBPIOΣ -- ΔEKEMBPIOΣ -- IANOΥAPIOΣ -- ΦEBPOΥAPIOΣ -- MAPTIOΣ -- ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΣ -- ΜΑΙΟΣ -- TRANSLATION OF THE ETRUSCAN: BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR -- ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR -- ARRANGEMENT ACCORDING TO THE LUNAR MONTH -- BY THE ROMAN FIGULUS -- FROM THE SAYINGS OF TAGES -- ACCOUNT TRANSLATED WORD FOR WORD -- IN THE MONTH OF JUNE -- JULY -- AUGUST -- SEPTEMBER -- OCTOBER -- NOVEMBER -- DECEMBER -- JANUARY -- FEBRUARY -- MARCH -- APRIL -- MAY -- PART III THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE ETRUSCAN: BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR -- CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS OF THE BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR -- FORMAL CHARACTERISTICS: THE CALENDAR -- FORMAT -- ARCHAIC CALENDARS: VARIATIONS -- THE ETRUSCAN CALENDAR: AVAILABLE INFORMATION -- CONTENT: CONTRASTS WITH NEAR EASTERN SOURCES AND WITH LATER DOCUMENTS -- ARGUMENTS FOR ROMAN INFLUENCES -- POINTS OF CONTACT WITH NEAR EASTERN PROTOTYPES -- APODOSES IN THE ETRUSCAN BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR DERIVED FROM MESOPOTAMIAN TEXTS -- OUTLOOK, POETIC OR FORMAL -- CEREMONIAL PHRASING -- "THE SAME" -- CHOICE OF TERMS -- POINTS OF DIVERGENCE FROM MESOPOTAMIAN EXAMPLES. 
880 8 |6 505-01/(S  |a COMPARISON OF ETRUSCAN BRONTOSCOPIC OMENS WITH MESOPOTAMIAN TEXTS -- APODOSIS CATEGORY: WANT, SICKNESS, FAMINE -- APODOSIS CATEGORY: THE DOWNFALL OF ONE IN POWER -- APODOSIS CATEGORY: CHILDBIRTH, REPRODUCTION -- APODOSIS CATEGORY: ANIMALS, GOOD AND BAD -- APODOSIS CATEGORY: THE REPTILES/SERPENTS/SNAKES -- APODOSIS CATEGORY: WIND, WEATHER, AND DIRECTIONS -- OTHER UNUSUAL EXPRESSIONS -- CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE: THE MILIEU IN WHICH THE BRONTOSCOPIC TEXT WAS CREATED -- CONTRASTS WITH LATER BRONTOSCOPIA -- POSSIBLE BYZANTINISMS -- ETRUSCAN AFFINITIES: PROPHECY OF VEGOIA (APPENDIX A, TEXT 2) -- BOUNDARIES, DISEASES, AND SOCIAL CLASSES -- TRACES OF ETRUSCAN FORMULAE IN EVENTS OF THE FIRST CENTURYDE HARUSPICUM RESPONSO -- FEATURES OF THE TEXT: VOCABULARY, PHRASES, SYNTAX-- OTHER RELIGIOUS TEXTS IN ITALY: IGUVINE TABLES -- VIEWPOINT, ACTUAL USAGE OF THE ETRUSCAN BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR -- MEMORY, RECORDS, AND THE EMERGING STATE -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 5 WEATHER, FAUNA, AGRICULTURE, PESTS: "REPTILES WILL TROUBLE HABITATIONS" -- INTRODUCTION: LAND, FLOOD, FAUNA, AND FAMINE IN THE CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN -- INCIDENCE OF OMENS RELATING TO FOOD, AGRICULTURE, ANIMALS, PESTS -- REFERENCES TO ANIMALS -- THE ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE BRONTOSCOPIC CALENDAR -- A VIGNETTE OF LIFE IN IRON AGE ETRURIA: THE DIET OF THE RISERVA DEL FERRONE NECROPOLIS "POPULATION" -- SPECIFIC CROPS, ANIMALS, PESTS: BACKGROUND -- FLOCKS AND HERDS, THE BIG THREE: SHEEP/GOATS, CATTLE, SWINE -- THE "WINGED ONES" -- FISH OF ALL KINDS -- WILD GAME -- Τά έρπετά -- REPTILES -- PESTS: INSECTS, MICE, CROP DISEASES -- BACKGROUND ON AGRICULTURE, AGRONOMY IN PREHISTORIC ITALY -- VILLAGE LIFE -- MEALS -- VERUCCHIO -- NORTHERN FISH AND FOWL. 
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