Priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae
Cumaean Sibyl by Andrea del CastagnoCumaean Sibyl on a coin of 43 BC, shown riding in a biga drawn by lions with a patera in her hand.
The Cumaean Sibyl (Latin: Sibylla Cumana) was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy. The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many sibyls throughout the ancient world. Because of the importance of the Cumaean Sibyl in the legends of early Rome as codified in Virgil's Aeneid VI, and 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, as was the oldest Hellenic oracle, the Sibyl of Dodona, dating to the second millennium BC according to Herodotus, favored in the east.
The Cumaean Sibyl is one of the four sibyls painted by Raphael at Santa Maria della Pace (see gallery below). She was also painted by Andrea del Castagno (Uffizi Gallery, illustration right), and in the Sistine Ceiling of Michelangelo her powerful presence overshadows every other sibyl, even her younger and more beautiful sisters, such as the Delphic Sibyl.
There are various names for the Cumaean Sibyl besides the "Herophile" of Pausanias and Lactantius[1] or the Aeneid's "Deiphobe, daughter of Glaucus": "Amaltheia", "Demophile" or "Taraxandra" all appear in various references.
The CumaeanSibyl (Latin: Sibylla Cumana) was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy. The word...
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in emergencies by Rome wherein her prophecies were transcribed. The CumaeanSibyl was called "Herophile" by Pausanias and Lactantius, "Deiphobe, daughter...
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sleep by Somnus and falls overboard. Aeneas, with the guidance of the CumaeanSibyl, descends into the underworld. They pass by crowds of the dead by the...
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gives such a circumstantial account of the CumaeanSibyl that the Address is quoted here at the CumaeanSibyl's entry. The Catholic Encyclopedia states,...
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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 CumaeanSibyl) and from Cumae to Rome...
Deiphobe may refer to CumaeanSibyl, an ancient Greek priestess Deiphobe (mantis), a genus of insects Deiphobus, a son of Priam and Hecuba in Greek mythology...
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and for his impudence was drowned by Triton. Aeneas was told by the CumaeanSibyl at that time that Misenus's body had to be buried before he could enter...
course of Aeneas's descent to the underworld (Aeneid, Book 6), after the CumaeanSibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return...
eruption of Vesuvius, such as Herculaneum. He discovered the Cave of the CumaeanSibyl in May 1932. The Cave is a trapezoidal dromos or passage over 131 meters...
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