The Sibylline Oracles
- Date of account
- late antiquity, chiefly 2nd century BCE–7th century CE compilation
- Location
- Eastern Mediterranean textual tradition
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Sibylline Oracles are a composite collection of Greek hexameter prophecies attributed pseudonymously to pagan prophetesses and reshaped by Jewish and Christian authors. Their subjects include cosmology, judgment, empire, sacred history, and eschatology. They matter for comparing prophecy as a literary technology, especially how older oracular authority was appropriated for new religious and political claims. Dating, layering, and provenance differ across books, and the collection should be read as pseudepigraphic religious literature rather than a transcript of predictions issued by a single historical Sibyl.
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