Talk:Persian Sibyl

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Wetman in topic Untitled

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Biography. Biography? Not the foggiest, do they? Here's what Justin Martyr says in Hortatory Address to the Greeks 37:

They say that she was of Babylonian origin, being the daughter of Berosus, who wrote the Chaldean history; and when she had crossed over (I know not how) into the parts of Campania she uttered her oracles there in a city called Cumae...

Perhaps some citations of sources might help disentangle what kind of wacky nonsense this is built of. --Wetman (talk) 05:51, 10 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

The "Hebrew Sibyl" is the same as this one. Making them two creates an eleventh sibyl. The better article, with the apposite references, is Sibyl.--Wetman (talk) 19:52, 20 May 2010 (UTC)Reply