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    The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios, which...
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    have been only a single sibyl. By the fourth century BC, there appear to have been at least three more, Phrygian, Erythraean, and Hellespontine. By the...
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  • Erythraean or Erythraian may refer to: Eritrea Erythraean Sibyl, the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae...
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    because of her proximity to Rome, the Cumaean Sibyl became the most famous among the Romans. The Erythraean Sibyl from modern-day Turkey was famed among Greeks...
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    The Suda's lexicon says that the Erythraean Sibyl was also called Samian. Pausanias confirms that the Erythraean Sibyl lived the greater part of her life...
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    Micah. The two much taller inner shutters show the Erythraean Sibyl (on the left) and the Cumaean Sibyl on the right. Each panel includes a text inscribed...
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    prophet Jonah The Cumaean Sibyl The Erythraean Sibyl The Persian Sibyl The Delphic Sibyl The Libyan Sibyl Detail of the Delphic Sibyl The four corner pendentives...
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    Sistine Chapel ceiling (category Paintings of sibyls)
    Sibyl (PERSICHA) Ezekiel (EZECHIEL) Erythraean Sibyl (ERITHRAEA) Joel (IOEL) Zechariah (ZACHERIAS) – above the main door of the chapel Delphic Sibyl (DELPHICA)...
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    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...
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  • oracles of the Erythraean Sibyl. It would appear to have been this very collection that found its way to Cumae (see the Cumaean Sibyl) and from Cumae...
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    In 1554, Mary, Queen of Scots played the Delphic Sibyl and Mary Fleming was the Erythraean Sibyl in a masque performed at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    produced in the peninsula. Erythrae was notable for being the seat of the Erythraean Sibyl. The ruins of the city are found north of the town Ildırı in the Çeşme...
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    means as inserting "Son of God" into a passage, as Lactantius: "The Erythraean Sibyl" in the beginning of her song, which she commenced by the help of the...
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  • Apollodorus of Erythrae was a writer of ancient Greece, who spoke of the Erythraean Sibyl as his fellow-citizen. Marcus Terentius Varro, Fragm. p. 216, ed Bip...
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    discussed in Part II of the Book of the City of Ladies. Sibyls: Erythraean Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl Deborah Elizabeth (biblical figure) Anna the Prophetess...
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    convertimur ad gentes." The testimony of Virgil, Nabuchodonosor, and the Erythraean Sibyl is interpreted in favor of the general thesis. As early as the eleventh...
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    Drunkenness of Noah Prophets Jonah Jeremiah Ezekiel Joel Zechariah Isaiah Daniel Sibyls Persian Sibyl Erythraean Sibyl Delphic Sibyl Cumaean Sibyl Libyan Sibyl...
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    Frederick was his son by interpretation of Merlin's prophecy and the Erythraean Sibyl. A later legend claims that Constance gave birth in the public square...
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  • nymph who was said to be the mother, by the shepherd Theodorus, of Erythraean Sibyl Herophile, and gave birth to her in a grotto at Erythrae. Idaea, the...
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    unfinished at the back. They represent the Tiburtine Sibyl, David, Solomon and the Erythraean Sibyl. The four Prophets on the south side are already more...
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    work at the Cathedral of Siena is the marble intarsio design of the Erythraean Sibyl (1482). He was also Capomaestro for the Cathedral of Orvieto. He designed...
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    of the Erythraean Sibyl. It seems to have been this very collection, or so it would appear, which found its way to Cumae (see the Cumaean Sibyl) and from...
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    Drunkenness of Noah Prophets Jonah Jeremiah Ezekiel Joel Zechariah Isaiah Daniel Sibyls Persian Sibyl Erythraean Sibyl Delphic Sibyl Cumaean Sibyl Libyan Sibyl...
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  • paragraph, as the word acrostic was first applied to the prophecies of the Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters...
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    the poet was merely "reflect[ing] what the Sybil of Cumae and the Erythraean Sibyl had said long before [he] wrote." Constantine himself also believed...
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    Drunkenness of Noah Prophets Jonah Jeremiah Ezekiel Joel Zechariah Isaiah Daniel Sibyls Persian Sibyl Erythraean Sibyl Delphic Sibyl Cumaean Sibyl Libyan Sibyl...
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    he was informed that the prophetess of the Apollonian oracle, the Erythraean Sibyl, had also confirmed his divine paternity as the son of Zeus. Leon of...
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    Libyan Sibyl Erythraean Sibyl Sibyl St Cecilia (1665) Roman Charity (ca. 1670) Sophonisba (1649) Sibyl inspired by Putto (Budrioli Family Sibyl) Lute Player...
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    Drunkenness of Noah Prophets Jonah Jeremiah Ezekiel Joel Zechariah Isaiah Daniel Sibyls Persian Sibyl Erythraean Sibyl Delphic Sibyl Cumaean Sibyl Libyan Sibyl...
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    alias Paule de Rege. In 1554, Mary played the Delphic Sibyl and Mary Fleming was the Erythraean Sibyl in a masque written by Mellin de Saint-Gelais. In 1554...
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