The best known depiction is that of michelangelo who shows five sibyls in the frescoes of the sistine chapel ceiling Defined as a prophetess or oracle, the sibyl was believed to have the ability to foretell the future and impart wisdom from the gods. The delphic sibyl, libyan sibyl, persian sibyl, cumaean sibyl, and the erythraean sibyl.
Sibyl, prophetess in greek legend and literature The sibyl, a figure rooted deeply in roman mythology, represents a bridge between the mortal world and the divine Tradition represented her as a woman of prodigious old age uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy, but she was always a figure of the mythical past, and her prophecies, in greek hexameters, were handed down in writing.
The delphic sibyl was a prophetess associated with early religious practices in ancient greece and is said to have been venerated from before the trojan wars as an important oracle. Sibylla cumana) was the priestess presiding over the apollonian oracle at cumae, a greek colony near naples, italy The word sibyl comes (via latin) from the ancient greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess There were many sibyls throughout the ancient world.
1) sibyl has a few undisclosed skeletons in the closet and manages them while drinking abusively 2) sibyl is a shrink and the border between her private life and her professional life does not exist 3) sibyl is a writer and she draws inspiration from her own surroundings.
