In the extended complement of sibyls of the Gothic and Renaissance imagination, the Phrygian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over an Apollonian oracle at Phrygia , a historical kingdom in the west central part of the Anatolian highlands. She was popularly identified with Cassandra , prophetess daughter of Priam's in Homer 's Iliad .
5-744: The Phrygian sibyl appears to be one of a triplicated sibyl, with the Hellespontine Sibyl and the Erythraean Sibyl and may be a doublet of the Hellespontine Sibyl. There was indeed an oracular site in Phrygia, but a single one, at Gergitis. The sibyls of Antiquity were increased to ten in Lactantius ' Divine Institutions (i.6) a 4th-century work quoting from a lost work of Varro , (1st century BCE). The word sibyl comes, via Latin , from
10-647: The Sibylline Oracles , which are not to be confused with the Sibylline Books . The Hellespontian Sibyl was born in the village of Marpessos near the small town of Gergis , during the lifetimes of Solon and Cyrus the Great . According to Heraclides of Pontus , Marpessus was formerly within the boundaries of the Troad . The sibylline collection at Gergis was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and preserved in
15-462: The ancient Greek word sibylla , meaning ' prophetess '. There were several Sibyls in the ancient world, all of whom were re-employed in Christian mythology , to prefigure Christian eschatology : When the dread trumpet resounds, the deepest earth will yawn open, Kings will be set before the throne of God. He will deliver the final judgement on the good and the wicked, for the latter, fire, for
20-523: The rest, eternal delights. Such were the lines, based on Tuba mirum and composed by Aria Montano for the portrait of the "Phrygian Sibyl" (1575), one of the suite of ten copperplate engravings of the Sibyls by the Antwerp artist Philip Galle (1537–1612). This Ancient Greek biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hellespontine Sibyl The Hellespontine Sibyl
25-598: Was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Dardania . The Sibyl is sometimes referred to as the Trojan Sibyl . The word Sibyl comes (via Latin ) from the Ancient Greek word sibylla , meaning prophetess or oracle. The Hellespontine Sibyl was known, particularly in the late Roman Imperial period and the early Middle Ages, for a claim that she predicted the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This claim comes from
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