Theobule

 ( Women Of Hermes ) 

In Greek mythology, the name Theobule ( from θεός + βούλλα 'divine will' or 'divine counsel') refers to:

• Theobule, mother of Myrtilus by Hermes. Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Myrtilus (1); Hyginus, Fabulae 224.
• Theobula, mother of Arcesilaus and Prothoenor by AreilycusHomer, Iliad 2.495; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 (ArchilycusDiodorus Siculus, 4.67.7). Their son was one of the leaders in the Trojan War. In one account, Alector was the father of Arcesilaus by Cleobule and Prothoenor by Arteis.
  John Tzetzes (2025). 9780674967854, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. ISBN 9780674967854

This name was also thought to have given rise to Sibyl by Varro, a Roman man of letters. The historian Jerome similarly explained Theobule as the Attic dialect form of the Doric Greek Σιοβόλλα ( Siobolla), a variant of Sibulla ( Sibyl in Greek)

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Notes

• Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 9, Mini-Obe, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill Publishers, 2006. . Online version at Brill.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• John Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.