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The objective of this edition is textual and translational in nature. Since the works of Lydus are replete with Latin vocabulary, this book serves to bring it into English. The translation is faithful to the original and accurate so as to express Lydus' intended thoughts. His repetitious use of certain linguistic expressions, although sometimes awkward to render to English, have been retained in order to capture his peculiar linguistic and seemingly crabbed style. The book tries to put his words into working English for the first time, and the translators were meticulous in trying to do a tigh

Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565. De magistratibus populi Romani libri tres -- Indexes. --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565. De mensibus -- Indexes. --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, 490-ca. 565. De ostentis -- Indexes. --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius,

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Etruscans --- Omens. --- Calendar, Greek. --- Astronomy, Greek. --- Etrusques --- Présages --- Calendrier grec --- Astronomie grecque --- Religion. --- Religion --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, --- Présages

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The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.

Etruscans --- Omens. --- Calendar, Greek. --- Astronomy, Greek. --- Greek astronomy --- Greek calendar --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Religion. --- Lydus, Johannes Laurentius, --- Arts and Humanities --- History