Samian Sibyl

The Samian Sibyl is one of the historians after the Roman Varro of Lactantius distinguished ten Sibyls, each provided with a geographic epithet ..

The site of the oracle of Sami Sibylle was according to ancient legend, the island of Samos, off the coast of Asia Minor. Besides previously in Tacitus is found, however, in other extant sources of Greek and Roman antiquity hardly a direct indication of a Sibylle especially on this island.

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

In the art of Gothic and Renaissance, the Samian Sibyl is usually depicted in accordance with the Listing by Varro as one in a series of Sibyls often. In juxtaposition to an often equal number of prophets of the Old Testament In the well -known pictorial representation of five Sibyls of Michelangelo in the fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel but no ' Samia ' is included.

In many other groups of Sibyls is found from however, and to a particular designated ' Samia ', such as at the following locations:

• Ulm, half - Gothic sculpture in the choir stalls of Ulm Minster, as one of ten Sibyls, the total work of art with numerous ancient scholars and prophets
• Siena, Renaissance mosaic in the floor of the cathedral, as a different image in a cycle Sibyls
• Genoa, baroque ceiling fresco in the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta

In the medieval Schedel 's World Chronicle, a colored image of a ' Sibilla samia ' as one of twelve sibyls is printed.