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Stars, Myths and Rituals in Etruscan Rome
This book offers a detailed and fascinating picture of the astonishing astronomical knowledge on which the Roman calendar, traditionally attributed to the king Numa Pompilius (reign 715-673 B.C.), was based. This knowledge, of Mesopotamian origins, related mainly to the planetary movements and to the occurrence of eclipses in the solar system. The author explains the Numan year and cycle and illustrates clearly how astronomical phenomena exerted a powerful influence over both public and private life. A series of concise chapters examine the dates of the Roman festivals, describe the related rites and myths and place the festivals in relation to the planetary movements and astronomical events. Special reference is made to the movements of the moon and Venus, their relation to the language of myth, and the particular significance that Venus was considered to have for female fertility. The book clearly demonstrates the depth of astronomical knowledge reflected in the Roman religious calendar and the designated festive days. It will appeal both to learned connoisseurs and to amateurs with a particular interest in the subject.
Babel
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11. Boyd clarifies how idioms of Assyrian governance could have found their way into the biblical text, and how t...
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Miscellanea Indo-Europea
Edgar C. Polome: IntroductionAlain de Benoist: Bibliographie Chronologique des Etudes Indo-EuropeenesGarrett Olmsted: Archaeology, Social Evolution, and the Spread of Indo-European Languages and CulturesAlexander Hausler: Nomadenhypothese und Ursprung der IndogermanenFrancoise Bader: Homere et le pelasgeCarol Justus: Can a Counting System be an Index of Linguistic Relationships?Nick Allen: Hinduism, Structuralism and DumezilDean Miller: Who Deals with the Gods? Kings and Other IntermediariesEdgar C. Polome: IE Initial /b/ & Gmc. Initial /p/Edgar C. Polome: Views on Developments in Indo-European Religions During the Last Decade of So.
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