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Sybil Shirley
Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. Sybil or Sibyl may also refer to: Films * Sybil (1921 film), ''Sybil'' (1921 film) * Sybil (1976 film), ''Sybil'' (1976 film), a film starring Sally Field * Sybil (2007 film), ''Sybil'' (2007 film), a remake of the 1976 film starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange * Sibyl (2019 film), ''Sibyl'' (2019 film), a French comedy-drama film Literature * Sybil (novel), ''Sybil'' (novel) or ''The Two Nations'', an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli * Sybil (Schreiber book), ''Sybil'' (Schreiber book), a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about Shirley Ardell Mason, an alleged sufferer from multiple personality disorder * ''Sybil'', a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss * ''The Sybil'' or ''Sibyllan'', a 1956 Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist * ''The Sybil'', an American dress reform periodical founded by Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck Music *Sybil (album), ''Sybil'' (album), a 1989 album by American singer Sybil *Sybil (opere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibyl
The sibyls (, singular ) were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece. The sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A sibyl at Delphi has been dated to as early as the eleventh century BC by PausaniasPausanias 10.12.1 when he described local traditions in his writings from the second century AD. At first, there appears to have been only a single sibyl. By the fourth century BC, there appear to have been at least three more, Phrygian, Erythraean, and Hellespontine. By the first century BC, there were at least ten sibyls, located in Greece, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor. History The English word ''sibyl'' ( or ) is from Middle English, via the Old French and the Latin from the ancient Greek (). Varro derived the name from an Aeolic ''sioboulla'', the equivalent of Attic ''theobule'' ("divine counsel"). This etymology is still widely accepted, although there have been alternative proposals in nineteenth-century philology suggesting Old Italic or Semitic derivation. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
