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Classical oracles is a category for the oracle-sites, prophets, seers, prophetic daemons and oracular books - real, forged or imagined - of Greek and Roman antiquity. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The Sibylline Oracles in their existing form are a chaotic medley. They consist of 12 books (or 14) of various authorship, date, and religious conception. The final arrangement, thought to be due to an unknown editor of the 6th century AD (Alexandre), does not determine identity of authorship, time, or religious belief; many of the books are merely arbitrary groupings of unrelated fragments.
In Greece, the oracles at Delphi and other sacred sites gave pronouncements in a highly stylized form of prophetic speech. Among indigenous North Americans, spiritual and/or political leaders like The Great Peacemaker used oracular rhetoric to artistic effect in delivering their messages.
The five oracles in the second part are actual prophecies. [1] This set of fifteen or sixteen oracles is mostly written in iambic verse in a high register of Greek. [2] Oracles 10 and 11 are in prose. [3] A second set of seven longer poems in popular Greek was attached to the collection probably in the fourteenth century. [4]
The Sibylline Books (Latin: Libri Sibyllini) were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition, were purchased from a sibyl by the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Roman Republic and the Empire.
The Gospel of the Lots of Mary is a small, 75 by 67 millimetres (3.0 in × 2.6 in), manuscript or booklet written in the Coptic language. [2] It contains 37 answers to questions, which unusually begin on the left (rather than right) page when the booklet is opened. [2]
The Living Oracles is a translation of the New Testament compiled and edited by the early Restoration Movement leader Alexander Campbell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 87–88 Published in 1826, it was based on an 1818 combined edition of translations by George Campbell , James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge , and included edits and extensive notes by Campbell.
Fragment of early Sortes text. The Sortes Astrampsychi (Oracles of Astrampsychus) was a popular Greco-Roman fortune-telling guide ascribed to Astrampsychus, identified by ancient authors as a magus who lived in Persia before the conquest of Alexander the Great, [1] or an Egyptian sage serving a Ptolemaic king. [2]