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Taraxandra - “She Who Alarms Men”

  • Writer: Tara Currie
    Tara Currie
  • Dec 11, 2019
  • 1 min read

The Cumaean sibyl had once the apotropaic name of Taraxandra, 'she who alarms men' (Schol. Plat. Phaedr. p. 244B), which suggests the severity of a guardian at a gate.

(Knight, William Francis Jackson. Cumaean Gates: A Reference of the Sixth Aeneid to the Initiation Pattern. Blackwell, 1936.)

 
 
 

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