Divining The Etruscan World
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Divining The Etruscan World
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Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-16
Divining The Etruscan World written by Jean MacIntosh Turfa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-16 with History categories.
The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text.
The Etruscan World
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Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-13
The Etruscan World written by Jean MacIntosh Turfa and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with History categories.
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, with many contributions available in English for the first time to allow the reader access to research that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated, The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.
Catalogue Of Etruscan Objects In World Museum Liverpool
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Author : Jeann MacIntosh Turfa
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2017-07-24
Catalogue Of Etruscan Objects In World Museum Liverpool written by Jeann MacIntosh Turfa and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-24 with Social Science categories.
A catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.
Catalogue Of Etruscan Objects In World Museum Liverpool
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Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Release Date : 2017
Catalogue Of Etruscan Objects In World Museum Liverpool written by Jean MacIntosh Turfa and has been published by Archaeopress Archaeology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art, Etruscan categories.
A catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.
Religions Of The Ancient World
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Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-30
Religions Of The Ancient World written by Sarah Iles Johnston and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-30 with History categories.
This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.
Divination Prediction And The End Of The Roman Republic
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Author : Federico Santangelo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-09
Divination Prediction And The End Of The Roman Republic written by Federico Santangelo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with History categories.
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is constructed in the literature of the period. Finally, it explores the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had in shaping the ideology of the new regime.
The Religion Of The Etruscans
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Author : Nancy Thomson de Grummond
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-04-20
The Religion Of The Etruscans written by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-20 with Religion categories.
Devotion to religion was the distinguishing characteristic of the Etruscan people, the most powerful civilization of Italy in the Archaic period. From a very early date, Etruscan religion spread its influence into Roman society, especially with the practice of divination. The Etruscan priest Spurinna, to give a well-known example, warned Caesar to beware the Ides of March. Yet despite the importance of religion in Etruscan life, there are relatively few modern comprehensive studies of Etruscan religion, and none in English. This volume seeks to fill that deficiency by bringing together essays by leading scholars that collectively provide a state-of-the-art overview of religion in ancient Etruria. The eight essays in this book cover all of the most important topics in Etruscan religion, including the Etruscan pantheon and the roles of the gods, the roles of priests and divinatory practices, votive rituals, liturgical literature, sacred spaces and temples, and burial and the afterlife. In addition to the essays, the book contains valuable supporting materials, including the first English translation of an Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar (which guided priests in making divinations), Greek and Latin sources about Etruscan religion (in the original language and English translation), and a glossary. Nearly 150 black and white photographs and drawings illustrate surviving Etruscan artifacts and inscriptions, as well as temple floor plans and reconstructions.
A Companion To The Etruscans
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Author : Sinclair Bell
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-02-23
A Companion To The Etruscans written by Sinclair Bell and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds. Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars Offers fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries Reassesses and evaluates traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as textile archaeology, while also addressing themes that have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the scholarship, such as the obesus etruscus, the function and use of jewelry at different life stages, Greek and Roman topoi about the Etruscans, the Etruscans’ reception of ponderation, and more Counters the claim that the Etruscans were culturally inferior to the Greeks and Romans by emphasizing fields where the Etruscans were either technological or artistic pioneers and by reframing similarities in style and iconography as examples of Etruscan agency and reception rather than as a deficit of local creativity
Neo Assyrian And Greek Divination In War
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Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-20
Neo Assyrian And Greek Divination In War written by Krzysztof Ulanowski and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War is about practices which enabled humans contact the divine. These relations, especially in difficult times of military conflict, could be crucial in deciding the fate of individuals, cities, dynasties or even empires.
The Religious Aspects Of War In The Ancient Near East Greece And Rome
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Author : Krzysztof Ulanowski
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-07-11
The Religious Aspects Of War In The Ancient Near East Greece And Rome written by Krzysztof Ulanowski and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-11 with History categories.
This book, in minute detail, presents a polyphony of voices, perspectives and opinions, from which emerges a diverse but coherent representation of the complex relationship between religion and war in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome.