Gini Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 (edited) Does anyone know if the Sybilline prophecies quoted in I Claudius by Robert Graves are real or not? e.g. as hundred years of the Punic curse And Rome will be slave to a hairy man A hairy man that is scant of hair Every man's woman and each woman's man etc about Juilius Caesar and it goes on about all the other Caesars up to Nero Edited June 2, 2006 by Gini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 Does anyone know if the Sybilline prophecies quoted in I Claudius by Robert Graves are real or not?e.g. as hundred years of the Punic curse And Rome will be slave to a hairy man A hairy man that is scant of hair Every man's woman and each woman's man etc about Juilius Caesar and it goes on about all the other Caesars up to Nero The original books are lost. The contents were closely guarded and only a select few were even allowed to view them at any given time. As I recall there are no surviving instances of the actual contents of the original prophecies since so few were privy to the contents. Any existing "Sybilline Prophecies" are the works of later Christian writers. Sybilline Books from William Smith's Dictionary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursus Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 Also, Graves is infamous in the pagan community for inserting his poetic imaginings as fact. Not so much "I, Claudius" as it is clearly fiction, but he's written "scholarly" work that has been heavily criticized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzhannah Posted June 27, 2006 Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 hi, primus is correct. the sybilline books were destroyed. you could read the aeneid (virgil) or the golden ass (apaulius) to get a better view of the goddess reverence and relevance to ancient history. the worship of syble or cyble (it was initially a holy black stone) was brought to rome from another eastern culture and assimilated. this was something the romans were very good at, many cultural, religious and artistic and scientific aspects of Greece and Egypt especially were used in the roman world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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