Sibylline Oracles
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The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and ei
A Sibyl, by Domenichino (c. 1616–17)
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The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece.
Sibylline Oracles
…The Sibylline Oracles (Latin: Oracula Sibyllina) are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state. Fourteen books and eight fragments of Sibylline Oracles survive, in an edition of the…
Statue in the Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, believed to depict a sibyl
Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sibyl by Francesco Ubertini, c. 1525