CLST 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: De Divinatione, Vegoia, Lituus
23 May 2015
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Our direct sources are extremely scare probably written on perishable items. In the environment of italy this does not last. In antiquity scholars both roman and etruscna were aiming ot compile what was known about etruscan religion from early on but with their own political slant. They had their own lens when talking about it. Etrusca disciplina, was the main body of knowledge for rites/ rituals for the. Loibri rituals, libri fatales, libriri de fulguratura, libri acheruntici, libri tagetcici and libri vegoica (only survive through citations. If it thunders and lihgtinings on this day your sheep will die: an almanac, very good source but has some bias. Wrote a bit on divination and refered to the etrsucans in de divinatione. Various other nuggets of information from seneca, livy, varro and vitruvius all combine to form a somewhat cohesive understanding of etruscan religion.
