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Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire - A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle (Hardcover)
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Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire - A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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The Sibylline Oracles (sacred prophecies) which provide narratives
of Roman history are our best sources for popular understanding of
contemporar y events, since they were written by those with no
obvious connection with the government. The thirteenth is of
particular interest because it remains the only first-hand
narrative of the critical years of the mid-third century AD when
the empire teetered on the brink of political collapse. This book
contains a full introduction describing the political history of
the third century, the other historiography of the period, and the
development of the tradition of Sibylline Oracles, their authorship
and readership. There follows a new edition of the text (the first
since 1902) and a detailed commentary which discusses disputed
points of chronology, and the impact on the authors (living in
Roman Syria) of the Persian invasions, which culminated in the sack
of Antioch in 252, and the capture of the emperor Valerian by the
Persian King Sapor in 260.
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