Stars, myths and rituals in Etruscan Rome. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Astronomia etrusco-romana.
• Further Information: Note: Leonardo Magini ; foreword by Germaine Aujac.
• Authors: Magini, Leonardo, 1938-
• Other Names: Aujac, Germaine; Victor, Adam translator.
• Contents: Foreword; Preface: A Letter; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes; Parameters Adopted for Calculations; 1 The Beginning of Astronomical Time and the Feriae Martis; 2 The Numan Year, the Romulean Year and the Feriale Antiquissimum; 3 The Names of Etruscan and Roman Months; 4 The Numan Cycle; 5 The Numan Year and Cycle, and the Motion of the Moon; 6 The Numan Cycle and the Movements of the Sun, the Moon and Venus; 7 The Solar New Year on March 8 or 9; 8 The Movements of the Moon and Venus and the Language of Myth; 9 The Motion of Venus. 10 The Movements of Venus (and the Moon), Female Fertility, and the Feast Days of Veneralia and Matralia11 The Length of Pregnancy, the Solar New Year, and the Feasts of Matronalia and Liberalia; 12 The Solstice Feasts: Fors Fortuna and Saturnalia; 13 Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses and the Cycle of Saros; 14 The Saros Cycle and the Feast Days of Feriae Martis and Anna Perenna; 15 The Frequency of Solar and Lunar Eclipses and the Festivities of the Numan Year; 16 Roman and Mesopotamian Eclipses: The Feast Days of the Regifugium and Vestalia. 17 The Revolution of the Line of Nodes and the Feast Days of October Equus, Fordicidia and Parilia18 The Ascendant Node at the First Point of Aries and the Festival of Summanus; 19 The Revolution of the Line of Apsides, and the Feast of Compitalia; 20 Composition of the Revolutions of the Lines of Nodes and of Apsides; 21 The Numan Cycle as a Reference Framework for Celestial Motion; 22 The Movements of the Superior Planets and the Ancilia, the S̀̀acred Shields''; 23 The Heavens of the Fixed Stars and Their Custodian, Ianus. 24 From the Robigalia on April 25 to the Entrance of the Sun in Aries for the Festivity of Anna Perenna on March 1525 From the Entrance of the Sun in Aries to Its Entrance in Pisces for the Terminalia on February 23, together with the Vespertine Rise of Arcturus; 26 The Vespertine Rising of Arcturus for the Terminalia on February 23 and the Relationship between the Romulean and Numan Calendars; 27 Reform of the Romulean Year and the Transition to the Numan Year; 28 (Inevitable) Conclusion: Per Aspera Ad Astra; Post Scriptum: A Number of Observations, with Hindsight; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 520.904; Physics; Astronomy, Roman; Astronomy -- Italy -- Etruria; SCIENCE -- Astronomy; Astronomy; Astronomy, Roman; Science -- Physics; History of science; Popular astronomy & space; Astronomy; Astronomy, space & time; Europe -- Etruria; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319072661; 3319072668
• Related ISBNs: 9783319072654
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 18, 2014).
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