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 | | Known as the sibyl of the Rhine and among the most influential women of her time, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) is riding a revival going into... |
 | | According to Lactantius' Divine Institutions (quoting from a lost work of Varro) these ten were the Babylonian or Persian Sibyl, the Libyan, the Cimmerian, the Sibyl of Delphi, the Erythraean, the Samian, the Cumaean, the Hellespontine, the Phrygian and the Tiburtine. |
 | | Christians were especially impressed with the Cumaean Sibyl too, for in Vergil's Fourth Eclogue she foretells the coming of a savior, a flattering reference to the poet's patron, whom Christians identified as Jesus. |
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