Grotto of the Sibyl
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 16, 2019 09:25 AM
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History
A cave discovered by Amedeo Maiuri in 1932 and connected in the historical tradition with the Cumaean Sibyl. The site features in the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/94135344
40.8349539, 14.0766539
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Grotto of the Sibyl (330 BC - AD 300)
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- L'antro della Sibilla (Italian, modern)
- Grotto of the Sibyl connection Avernus L. (unspecified date range)
- Grotto of the Sibyl connection Campi Phlegraei (unspecified date range)
- Grotto of the Sibyl connection Cumae/Kyme (Campanian) (unspecified date range)
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None
sanctuary (religious center), cave
- See Further:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Grotto of the Sibyl: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/94135344> [accessed: 03 June 2023]
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