Sibyl
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The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece.
Statue in the Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, believed to depict a sibyl
Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sibyl by Francesco Ubertini, c. 1525
Sibylline Books
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The Sibylline Books were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition, were purchased from a sibyl by the last King of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius S
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…the Oscans in the fifth century destroyed the tradition, but provides a terminus ante quem for a Cumaean sibyl. She is said to have sold the original Sibylline books to Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome. In Virgil's Fourth Eclogue, the Cumaean sibyl foretells the coming of a savior—possibly a flattering…
Michelangelo's rendering of the Erythraean Sibyl
Tarquin the Proud receives the Sibylline Books (1912 illustration)
Relief of Marcus Aurelius sacrificing at the fourth temple of Jupiter
16th-century illustration of the Cumaean Sibyl (Amalthea) burning some of the Sibylline books while Tarquin (confused with Lucius Tarquinius Priscus) watches.