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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The Sibylline Oracles (Latin: Oracula Sibyllina; sometimes called the pseudo-Sibylline Oracles)[citation needed] are a collection of oracular utterances...
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Sibylline is a Belgian comics series by Raymond Macherot and his second best-known work after Chlorophylle. Just like the latter, it is a fantasy comic...
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Delphi (redirect from Sibylline Rock)
Delphi (/ˈdɛlfaɪ, ˈdɛlfi/; Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi]), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the...
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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...
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Sibillini Mountains (redirect from Sibylline mountains)
The Sibillini Mountains, or Sibylline Mountains (Italian: Monti Sibillini) are one of the major mountain groups in the Italian Peninsula, and part of...
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The Arabic Sibylline prophecy is a set of Christian apocalyptic texts based on the tradition of the Tiburtine Sibyl. The original version of the prophecy...
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Raymond Macherot (section Sibylline)
artist, most famous for his satirical funny animal series Chlorophylle and Sibylline. Although not nearly as famous as fellow Belgian cartoonists such as Hergé...
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Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems is a volume of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1817. Poems Preface Time, Real and Imaginary...
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of 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...
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(s), sōtḗr (Σωτήρ), "Savior" Augustine quotes an ancient text from the Sibylline oracles whose verses are an acrostic of the generating sentence. A fourth...
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Nero's return. The earliest written version of this legend is found in the Sibylline Oracles. It claims that Nero did not really die but fled to Parthia, where...
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Cronus (section Sibylline Oracles)
kingdoms, becoming lord of the world (3.73.7–8). Cronus is mentioned in the Sibylline Oracles, particularly in book three, wherein Cronus, 'Titan,' and Iapetus...
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Wives aboard Noah's Ark (section Sibylline Oracles)
three sons each built a city named after their wives. According to the Sibylline Oracles (6th or 7th century AD), the wives of Shem, Ham, and Japheth enjoyed...
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all 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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author of the Sibylline oracles, a collection of texts of c. the 2nd to 4th century which were collected in the 6th century. Sibylline oracles Wives aboard...
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Another version of the poem was published in the 1817 collection entitled Sibylline Leaves (see 1817 in poetry). On a surface level the poem explores a violation...
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Mount Ida (Turkey) (section Sibylline books)
("great Idaean mother of the gods"). The oldest collection of Sibylline utterances, the Sibylline Books, appears to have been made about the time of Cyrus...
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Prophetiae Sibyllarum ("Sibylline Prophecies" or "Sibylline Oracles") are a series of twelve motets by the Franco-Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso. The...
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Roman state adopted and developed a particular form of her cult after the Sibylline oracle in 205 BC recommended her conscription as a key religious ally...
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the sixth anniversary of his reign, he approached the keepers of the Sibylline Books for guidance. The keepers prophesied that, on that very day, "the...
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“the land of the mighty one” or “the land is mighty”. According to the sibylline oracles he is a holy angel that leads souls to judgment along with Ramiel...
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Sirach Book of Judith Book of Tobit 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees 3 Maccabees 4 Maccabees Letter of Aristeas Sibylline Oracles Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum...
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Elysium (Islands of the Blessed) with the "blameless" heroes. In the Sibylline oracles, a curious hodgepodge of Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian elements...
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Pseudathyma sibyllina (redirect from Sibylline false sergeant)
Pseudathyma sibyllina, the Sibylline false sergeant, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast...
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its entirety, is a later addition. Pointing to similarities with the Sibylline Oracles and other earlier works, in 1976, J.T. Milik dated the Book of...
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original price. At last, Tarquin accepted, in this way obtaining the Sibylline Books. In 509 BC, having angered the Roman populace through the pace and...
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supported by Dexippus (a contemporary Greek historian) and the thirteenth Sibylline Oracle, Decius' failure was largely owing to Gallus, who had conspired...
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Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Orphic Hymns Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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a number of writers were stating that Nero killed Peter and Paul. The Sibylline Oracles, Book 5 and 8, written in the second century, speak of Nero returning...
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