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Pages: 425
Authors: Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient tex
The Etruscan World
Language: en
Pages: 1216
Authors: Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Categories: History
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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 E
The Heavenly Writing
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Francesca Rochberg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cu
Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Anna Collar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Examines the relationship between social networks and religious transmission to reappraise how new religious ideas spread in the Roman Empire.
Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War
Language: en
Pages: 588
Authors: Krzysztof Ulanowski
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Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War focuses on all divinatory practices which were used in the ancient Near East and Greece in time of war. Divination was