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The events of the Trojan War were first foreseen among mortals by Herophile, the Sybil of Erythrai. Soon, rumor spread of an upcoming conflict that would be immortalized in song, although Herophile also predicted that Homer would get a lot of the details wrong.
Herophile even inserted herself into the Epic Cycle by traveling to Ilion in order to deliver her prophecies directly to the royal family of Troy.
The fifth (Sibyl) was from Erythrai, and Apollodoros of Erythrai asserts that she, who was his fellow citizen, predicted to the Greeks making for Ilium both that Troy would perish and that Homer would write false tales.— Apollodoros of Erythrae BNJ 422F1
as cited in Marcus Terentius Varro Divine Antiquities
c. 3rd Century BCE
Jacoby (BNJ database), Eran Almagor (trans.), 2016.
The fifth (Sibyl) is that of Erythrai, who prophesied on the occurrences of the Trojan War, and whom Apollodoros of Erythrai mentions in detail.— Apollodoros of Erythrae BNJ 422F1c
as cited in Scholia on Plato Phaedrus 244b
c. 3rd Century BCE
Jacoby (BNJ database), Eran Almagor (trans.), 2016.
The fifth (Sibyl) is that of Erythrai, who prophesied before the Trojan War as Apollodoros of Erythrai confirms.— Apollodoros of Erythrae BNJ 422F1d
as cited in The Sibylline Oracles Prologue 2.41
c. 3rd Century BCE
Jacoby (BNJ database), Eran Almagor (trans.), 2016.
There is a rock sticking up out of the earth at which the Delphians say the Sibyl Herophile stood to sing her oracles. ... [Herophile] seems to have been born before the Trojan war even so, and to have foretold Helen in her prophecies: how she would be reared in Sparta for the ruin of Asia and of Europe, and how through her Troy would fall to the Greeks. ... At Alexandria they say Herophile was temple-keeper to Sminthean Apollo; by the interpretation of a dream she prophesied to Hecuba that future which we know was to come true.— Pausanias Guide to Greece 10.12.1 and 10.12.3
c. Mid 2nd Century-180 AD
Levi, pp. 435-436.
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