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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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    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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    Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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. Propertius...
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    festival was first instituted in 240 B.C.E, and on the advice of the Sibylline books, she was also given a temple in 238 B.C.E. At the festival, with the...
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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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    Virgil Aeneid Ovid Fasti Metamorphoses Propertius Varro Res divinae Sibylline Books Apuleius The Golden Ass Concepts and practices Festivals Interpretatio...
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    Trasimeno in 217 BC and promised this temple to Venus after consulting the Sibylline Books, hoping thereby to reverse his fate.[citation needed] The temple was...
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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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  • BC) Sibylline Books Pherecydes of Syros (6th century BCE) Heptamychia Ctesias (fifth century BC) Persica, a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books Indica...
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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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    Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca...
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