The Sibylline Books (Latin: Libri Sibyllini) were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition...
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uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the 6th or 7th century...
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Sibyl (section Sibylline books)
ante quem for a Cumaean sibyl. She is said to have sold the original Sibylline books to Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome. In Virgil's Fourth Eclogue...
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Mount Ida (Turkey) (section Sibylline books)
Idaean mother of the gods"). The oldest collection of Sibylline utterances, the Sibylline Books, appears to have been made about the time of Cyrus at...
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The Trials of Apollo (section Books)
go to Ella the harpy and Tyson the cyclops, who are recreating the Sibylline Books. They get a prophecy regarding Tarquin's tomb. They go to the camp...
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Vegoia (section Relationship to Sibylline books)
known as the Sibylline Books that were under the exclusive control of special religious figures, the duumviri (then decemviri). The books were resorted...
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members of a college (collegium) with priestly duties. They guarded the Sibylline Books, scriptures which they consulted and interpreted at the request of...
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hold, and regulating debts. He also passed a law stipulating that the Sibylline Books should be overseen by decemviri, of whom half would be plebeians in...
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Jesus Christ. This claim comes from the Sibylline Oracles, which are not to be confused with the Sibylline Books. The Hellespontian Sibyl was born in the...
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presence in the early history of Roman festivals. On the advice of the Sibylline books, which were consulted amid anxieties surrounding the Second Punic War...
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Wives aboard Noah's Ark (section Sibylline Oracles)
ISBN 978-90-474-1614-2. S2CID 193373500. These were considered to be the Sibylline Books of the Greeks and Romans by Athenagoras of Athens, quoting them in...
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of Apollo and his sister Diana, as well as to store the prophetic Sibylline Books. Its precinct was used for diplomatic functions as well as for meetings...
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resorted to extraordinary measures, which included consulting the Sibylline Books, dispatching a delegation led by Quintus Fabius Pictor to consult the...
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their bookstore, looking for the Sibylline Books. After the battle, Tyson and Ella rename the bookstore Cyclops Books and provide Apollo and Meg with the...
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Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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Rhapsodomancy (section Sibylline Books)
that led to rhapsodomancy falling out of favour with the I Ching. The sibylline books, thought to have written around the 6th century BC, were used by Greek...
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Capitoline Hill in Rome was vowed to Mens in 217 BC on advice from the Sibylline Books, after the defeat of Lake Trasimene, and was dedicated in 215 BC. In...
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Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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Virgil Aeneid Ovid Fasti Metamorphoses Propertius Varro Res divinae Sibylline Books Apuleius The Golden Ass Concepts and practices Festivals Interpretatio...
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appear in various references. The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the semi-legendary last king of the...
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The Tyrant's Tomb (category 2019 children's books)
go to Ella the harpy and Tyson the cyclops, who are recreating the Sibylline Books. They get a prophecy regarding Tarquin's tomb. They go to the camp...
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List of book-burning incidents (category History of books)
current, the work of anonymous or unrespected authors (preserving the Sibylline Books). Flavius Josephus relates that about the year 50 a Roman soldier seized...
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Rome on the advice of the Sibylline books, and two years later a temple was erected, also with the support of the Sibylline books. Because of their sexual...
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Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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for times of extreme crisis, supposedly at the recommendation of the Sibylline Books; the living burial or immurement in the Forum Boarium of a Greek man...
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Quindecimviri sacris faciundis, the fifteen priests in charge of the Sibylline Books; Septemviri epulonum, the board of seven priests who organized public...
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Peloponnese, and at the islands of Delos and Aegina in the Aegean Sea. The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters...
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com. Retrieved 2014-01-27. Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters, Volume V: Books 10.420e-11, edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson, Loeb Classical Library...
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Merlin Stone (section Books)
and Heroine Heritage. Illustrated by Cynthia Stone. New York: New Sibylline Books. ISBN 9780960335206. —— (1979). Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood Volume...
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