"Hellespontine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by idols. This feature was subsequently imported by means of Hellenic influences coming through Cuma and other cities of Magna Graecia. By the same channels came the Sibylline books. There were ten Sibyls,—the Persian, Libyan, Delphian, Cumaean, Erythraean, Samian, Amalthaean, Hellespontine, Phrygian, and Tiburtine. The Sibylline books authorized or commanded the worship of various Greek gods; they ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke |
