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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 391 pages. 6.75x4.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 341 pages. 6.50x4.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 539 pages. 6.25x4.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 429 pages. 6.50x4.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 356 pages. 6.75x4.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Corners are bumped. Pen lines to margins on about 9 pages. Pencil markings on 2 other pages. Small chip to one corner of DJ. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Writing in pencil to front DJ flap.; 236 pages; 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. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 447 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [nà e Ward]).; 236 pages; 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.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.