The sibyls (αἱ Σῐ́βυλλαι, singular Σῐ́βυλλᾰ) were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has...
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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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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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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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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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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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Cybill Shepherd (redirect from Sibyl Sheppard)
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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