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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hyperides, Speeches | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristophanes, Peace (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Odes (ed. John Conington) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Pausanias, Description of Greece. You can also browse the collection for Lamia (Greece) or search for Lamia (Greece) in all documents.
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There is a rock rising up above the ground. On it, say the Delphians, there stood and chanted the oracles a woman, by name Herophile and surnamed Sibyl. The former Sibyl I find was as ancient as any; the Greeks say that she was a daughter of Zeus by Lamia, daughter of Poseidon, that she was the first woman to chant oracles, and that the name Sibyl was given her by the Libyans.
Herophile was younger than she was, but nevertheless she too was clearly born before the Trojan war, as she foretold in her oracles that Helen would be brought up in Sparta to be the ruin of Asia and of Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would capture Troy. The Delians remember also a hymn this woman composed to Apollo. In her poem she calls herself not only Herophile but also Artemis, and the wedded wife of Apollo, saying too sometimes that she is his sister, and sometimes that she is his daughter.
These statements she made in her poetry when in a frenzy and possessed by the god. Elsewhere in her oracl