Sibyls and sibylline prophecy in classical antiquity
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Sibyls and sibylline prophecy in classical antiquity
Routledge, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In antiquity a considerable number of books of prophecies went under the general title of "Sibylline Oracles". Rulers as significant as Augustus consulted them in time of danger or crisis for advice and prognoses. Increasing numbers of "ex post facto" prophecies, laying a particular interpretation on facts of recent history, came to be attributed to one of the mysterious Sibyls. Perhaps the most famous of these is the Cumaean Sibyl, who guides the hero in the sixth book of Vergil's "Aeneid" . In fact she was somewhat unusual in her similiarity to other oracular prophetesses, such as the Pythia. For where the latter prophesied in response to particular inquirers, one of the distinguishing characteristics of Sibyls was that they composed discursive verses for distribution to the world at large. This, Professor Parke's last book, which was virtually complete on his death in 1986, is an account of a subject both rarely treated in recent decades and difficult to access for all but the most expert. In its pursuit of the sometimes elusive Sibyls it ranges from Heraclitus to Eusebius, from Archaic Asia Minor to Christian Rome.
This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of classics.
目次
- 1. The Characteristics of Sibylline Oracles 2. The Ancient Scholarly Sources for the Identity of Sibyls 3. Archaic Sibyls of Eastern Greece 4. Cumae 5. The Sibyl in the Classical Period 6. The Sibyl in the Hellinistic Period 7. The Sibyl in Pagan Rome 8. The Sibyl in Christian Literature
- Appendices: I. The Theologoi II. The Libri Sibyllini III. Estatic Prophecy in the Near East.
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