{{Short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}} In Greek mythology, the name '''Theobule''' ({{langx|grc|Θεοβούλη}} from {{lang|grc|θεός}} + {{lang|grc|βούλλα}}<ref name=Sibyl>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia |noicon=1 |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13629-sibyl |title=Sibyl}}</ref> 'divine will' or 'divine counsel') refers to: *Theobule, mother of Myrtilus by Hermes.<ref>''Brill's New Pauly'', s.v. Myrtilus (1); Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#224 224].</ref> *Theobula, mother of Arcesilaus and Prothoenor by Areilycus<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.495; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 97</ref> (Archilycus<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.7</ref>). Their son was one of the Boeotian leaders in the Trojan War. In one account, Alector was the father of Arcesilaus by Cleobule and Prothoenor by Arteis.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes|first=John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=41, Prologue 534–535|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref>
This name was also thought to have given rise to ''Sibyl'' by Varro, a Roman man of letters.<ref name=Sibyl/> The historian Jerome similarly explained ''Theobule'' as the Attic form of the Doric {{lang|grc|Σιοβόλλα}} (''Siobolla''), a variant of ''Sibulla'' (''Sibyl'' in Greek)<ref>{{OED|Sibyl}}</ref>
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== References == * ''Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 9'', Mini-Obe, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2006. {{ISBN|978-90-04-12272-7}}. [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly 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. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html 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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 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. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] *Homer, ''The Iliad'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] *Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. *Tzetzes, John, ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-674-96785-4}}
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