Stars, Myths and Rituals in Etruscan Rome

• Main Author: Magini, Leonardo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Space and Society,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

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 BC), was based. This knowledge, of Mesopotamian origins, related mainly to the planetary movements and to the...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: The Beginning of Astronomical Time and the Feriae Martis
• The Numan Year, the Romulean Year and the Feriale antiquissimum
• The Names of Etruscan and Roman Months
• The Numan Cycle
• The Numan Year and Cycle, and the Motion of the Moon
• The Numan Cycle and the Movements of the Sun, the Moon and Venus
• The Solar New Year on March 8 or 9
• The Movements of the Moon and Venus and the Language of Myth.