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    The sibyls (Σίβυλλαι, pl. of Σίβυλλα, pronounced [sí.byl.lai, sí.byl.la]) were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy...
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    Cumaean Sibyl (Latin: Sibylla Cumana) was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy. The word sibyl comes...
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    Sibyl or Albunea was a Roman sibyl, whose seat was the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting of Augustus with the Sibyl,...
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  • Sibyl or sibyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. Sybil or Sibyl may...
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  • Sibyl Vane may refer to: Sibyl Vane, a main character of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray Sibyl Vane, a main character in Vladimir Nabokov's...
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    Sibyl Buck (born May 27, 1972) is an American musician, yoga instructor, and fashion model. Born in Versailles, France, Buck started her modeling career...
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  • Sibyl is a 2019 comedy-drama film directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay she co-wrote with Arthur Harari, and starring Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos...
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    The Delphic Sibyl was a woman who was a prophet associated with early religious practices in Ancient Greece and is said to have been venerated from before...
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  • "The Eye of the Sibyl" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was written sometime around 1975, but not published until...
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    Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow...
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    term sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world, but the Libyan Sibyl, in...
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    Dame Sibyl Mary Hathaway DBE (née Collings, formerly Beaumont; 13 January 1884 – 14 July 1974) was Dame of Sark from 1927 until her death in 1974. Her...
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    The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios, which...
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    Hellespontine Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Dardania. The Sibyl is sometimes referred to as the Trojan Sibyl. The word Sibyl comes...
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    Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer...
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    In the extended complement of sibyls of the Gothic and Renaissance imagination, the Phrygian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over an Apollonian oracle...
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    Sibyl rock is an outcropping of rock on the site of Delphi, standing just to the south of the Polygonal Wall. Pausanias, a visitor to the site in the...
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    Catulle Sarrazin; and (iii) all "mistress" references to Gray's lovers, Sibyl Vane and Hetty Merton. It was published in full as the first 100 pages in...
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  • Sibyl Schwarzenbach is an American philosopher and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is known...
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    The Cimmerian Sibyl, by name Carmentis, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy, near Lake Avernus (i.e...
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  • Sibyl Anikeef (née Marie Augusta Phillipson; March 29, 1896 – July 27, 1997) was an American photographer. She worked for the Federal Art Project, and...
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    Sibyl Sophie Julia, Lady Colefax (née Halsey; 1874 – 22 September 1950) was an English interior decorator and socialite in the first half of the twentieth...
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    Dorian has fallen in love with Sibyl because of her beauty instead of her acting talent. Embarrassed, Dorian rejects Sibyl, telling her that acting was...
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    The Persian Sibyl – also known as the Babylonian, Chaldaean, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl – was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle...
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    prophet Jonah The Cumaean Sibyl The Erythraean Sibyl The Persian Sibyl The Delphic Sibyl The Libyan Sibyl Detail of the Delphic Sibyl The four corner pendentives...
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    The Temple of the Sibyl (in Polish, Świątynia Sybilli) is a colonnaded round monopteral temple-like structure at Puławy, Poland, built at the turn of...
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    Sistine Chapel ceiling (category Paintings of sibyls)
    Sibyl (PERSICHA) Ezekiel (EZECHIEL) Erythraean Sibyl (ERITHRAEA) Joel (IOEL) Zechariah (ZACHERIAS) – above the main door of the chapel Delphic Sibyl (DELPHICA)...
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  • Sibyl of Falaise (or Sibil de Falaise) was a kinswoman of King Henry I of England. She was possibly his illegitimate daughter or a niece, as the sources...
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  • The Song of the Sibyl (Catalan: El Cant de la Sibil·la [əl ˈkand də lə siˈβilːə]) is a liturgical drama and a Gregorian chant, the lyrics of which comprise...
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    the interior of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome. The painting shows four Sibyls—Cumaean, Persian, Phrygian and Tiburtine—accompanied by attendant angels...
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