The Bronze Liver of Piacenza
The Bronze Liver of Piacenza

Author: Meer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-01-16

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9004525491

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This book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep’s liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names of divinities on both sides of the Liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven.

The Bronze Liver of Piacenza
The Bronze Liver of Piacenza

Author: L. Bouke van der Meer

Publisher: Dutch Monographs on Ancient Hi

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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This book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep s liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names of divinities on both sides of the Liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven.

Public Portents in Republican Rome
Public Portents in Republican Rome

Author: Susanne William Rasmussen

Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9788882652401

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The Romans were a superstitious bunch with public portents forming an integral role in most political and social ceremonies and rituals. This detailed analysis of prodigia (unusual events that were reported to the Senate who then proclaimed that event as an unfavourable portent) does not look at what these events reveal about Roman psychology but, instead, focuses on the sociological consequences of this complete integration of politics and religion during the Republican period. Much of the book comprises a table of prodigies, gathered from primary sources, notably Livy's Ab urbe condita and Julius Obsequens' Ab anno-urbis conditae DV prodigium liber . This data is supported by detailed discussions of Cicero and public divination, the relationship between divination and science, the types of portents and the nature of religio-politics. Danish summary.

The Orientalizing Revolution
The Orientalizing Revolution

Author: Walter Burkert

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780674643642

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Ancient Greek culture is often described as a miracle, owing little to its neighbors. Walter Burkert argues against a distorted view, toward a more balanced picture. "Under the influence of the Semitic East--from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers--Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean."

Religions of the Ancient World
Religions of the Ancient World

Author: Sarah Iles Johnston

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 9780674015173

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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.

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Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 1636

ISBN-13:

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Divination Through Hepatoscopy
Divination Through Hepatoscopy

Author: Antonio Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Martins

Publisher: 16 Tons

Published: 2024-01-08

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 6558904853

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Get to know the History of the biggest organ in the human body, and how it shifted from being the seat of the soul, to becoming the main metabolic organ in our body.