Cumaean Sibyl - Stories recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses

The Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples, Italy. The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world, but because of the importance of the Cumaean Sibyl in the legends of early Rome, she became one of the most noted and famous, often simply referred to as The Sibyl. In the art of Michelangelo (shown to the right) and other painters, her powerful presence overshadows every other Sibyl, even her younger an ...

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In the Middle Ages, both the Cumaean Sibyl and Virgil were considered prophets of the birth of Christ, because the fourth of Virgil's Eclogues appears to contain a Messianic prophecy by the Sibyl, and this was seized on by early Christians as such—one reason why Dante Alighieri later chose Virgil as his guide through the underworld in The Divine Comedy. Similarly, Michelangelo prominently featured the Cumaean Sibyl ...

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The Sibyl was said to inhabit a cave with one hundred mouths, each of which had a voice [1] accessible by a still existing dromos. The cave is a trapezoidal dromos or passage over 131 m long, running parallel to the side of the hill and cut out of the volcanic stone. The Cave of the Sibyl was rediscovered in May 1932 by Amedeo Maiuri. It was said in some of the ancient poems that the whispers of the Sibyl would be heard for a thousand years, and some have sai ...

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Cumaean Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl - The cave at Cumae, Cumaean Sibyl - Ancient Roman prophecies, Cumaean Sibyl - Medieval Christianity, Cumaean Sibyl - Literature, Cumaean Sibyl - Stories recounted in Virgil's Æneid, Cumaean Sibyl - Stories recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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