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Erythraean Sibyl

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39: 88: 31: 181:, which prophecy was in the form of an acrostic whose initial letters spelled out "ΙΗΣΌΎΣ ΧΡΕΙΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΎΊΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡ ΣΤΑΎΡΟΣ" ("Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior, Cross). Examples were in mediaeval paintings in 38: 170:
has been applied to the prophecies of the Erythraean Sibyl, which were written on leaves and arranged so that the initial letters of the leaves always formed a word.
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Coin of 46 BC with image of the Erythraean Sibyl Herophile with hair elaborately decorated with jewels and enclosed in a sling, tied with bands.
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The Erythraean Sibyl is believed to have made extremely precise statements regarding the coming of
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Presumably there was more than one sibyl at Erythrae. One is recorded as having been named
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Michelangelo's rendering of the Erythraean Sibyl (detail of the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
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translated by Virginia Brown 2001; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press;
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Index

Herophile


Sibyl
classical antiquity
Apollonian
oracle
Erythrae
Ionia
Chios
Neleus
Codrus

Cathedral of Siena
Italy
Sibyl
Latin
ancient Greek
prophetess
prophets
Chaldea
Babylonia
Berossus
Apollodorus of Erythrae
Trojan War
Troy
Homer
acrostic
Christ
Redeemer

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