The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios. The town was built by Neleus, the son of Codrus. This oracle prophecied Alexander the Great's divine parentage, according to legend. His mother, Olympias, was said to have had an affair with Zeus, the King of the gods in Greek mythology. This particular sibyl is not remembered for other pronouncements.
Sibyls are not identified by personal name, but by names that refer to the location of their temples, including one associated to an unnamed temple in Libya.
Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany[1] (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/english/courses/214/sibyls/sibyls.htm).
Pausanias claimed that the Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph".
Sibyls are not identified by personal name, but by names that refer to the location of their temples, including one associated to an unnamed temple in Libya.
Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany[1].
Pausanias claimed that the Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph".
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