The Classical Quarterly

Table of Contents - 1915 - Volume 9, Issue 03  

Research Article

The Last Sibylline Oracle of Alexandria

Walter Scotta1

a1 Keble Road, Oxford

The four Books numbered XI. to XIV. in the extant collection of Sibylline Oracles present, under the transparent disguise of prophecy, a summary of the world's history, concluded, in the last fourteen lines of Book XIV., by a short prediction of an ideal future. The chronicle of events, as it now stands, runs continuously from the Flood and the Tower of Babel to some date not hitherto determined, but certainly not earlier than 266 A.D.