Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle

by David Stone Potter

The Sybylline Oracles that provide narratives of Roman history are our best sources for popular understanding of contemporary events, since they were written by those with no obvious connection with the government. The Thirteenth Oracle is particularly interesting as it remains the only first-hand narrative of the critical years of the mid-third century AD, when the empire stood on the brink of political collapse. This book contains the first new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198144830
• ISBN13: 9780198144830
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 160.00 lbs.