Phrygian Sibyl

The Phrygian Sibyl is one of the by Varro, a Roman writer of the 1st century BC, of Lactantius distinguished ten Sibyls, each provided with a geographic epithet.

Other sources of Greek and Roman antiquity contain no evidence of Sibylle especially from that time understood as part of Phrygia in Asia Minor regions. Possibly the designation of a Sibyl as is " Phrygian " generally understood as recognition of the long tradition of honoring a female Sehertums these regions, especially Phrygia was known as the origin of the cult of the Earth Mother and the Great Mother Cybele.

Following Lactantius understood Christian Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Phrygian Sibyl as a prophet almost equivalent to the pagan proclaimer of a divine expectation.

In the art of Gothic and Renaissance, the Phrygian Sibyl is usually depicted with reference to Varro as one in a series of Sibyls often. In juxtaposition to an often equal number of prophets of the Old Testament

Among the most well-known pictorial representations of Sibyls in the fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is not a Phrygian found among the women. However, among numerous other illustrations in sibyls cycles as a Phrygian Sibyl identified by name seer, inter alia, to the following places to see:

• Ulm, half - Gothic sculpture in the choir of the cathedral, as one of ten Sibyls, the total work of art with numerous ancient scholars and prophets
• Bologna, under eight Sibyls of the Baroque painter Guercino