The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary prophetic figure who was said to have given prophecies at Delphi shortly after the Trojan War.

277 mentions the legend that it was Carmenta, the Cimmerian Sibyl, who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium, supposedly 60 years before the Trojan War, but there is no historically sound basis to this tale ).

At Cumae, the Sibyl leads Aeneas on an archetypal descent to the underworld, where the shade of his dead father serves as a guide ; this book of the Aeneid directly influenced Dante, who has Virgil act as his narrator's guide.

He discovers amazing actress Sibyl Vane, who performs Shakespeare plays in a dingy theatre.

On reaching Cumae, in Italy in Book 6, Aeneas consults the Cumaean Sibyl, who conducts him through the Underworld where Aeneas meets the dead Anchises who reveals his Rome's destiny to his son.

In attendance are Sibyl Birling, Arthur's wife and Sheila and Eric's mother, and Eric Birling, Sheila's younger brother, who has a drinking problem that is discreetly ignored.

As teacher on this point, I shall produce to you the Sibyl prophetess :- ' Not the oracular lie of Phoebus, Whom silly men called God, and falsely termed Prophet ; But the oracles of the great God, who was not made by men's hands, Like dumb idols of Sculptured stone.

In Christian iconography the Erythraean Sibyl sometimes appears as one who prophesied the Redemption.

* Dame of Sark, the memoirs of the 21st Seigneur Sibyl Mary Hathaway, who was present during the German occupation, were made into a play and television drama of the same name.

There are two small temples above the falls, the rotunda traditionally associated with Vesta and the rectangular one with the Sibyl of Tibur, whom Varro calls Albunea, the water nymph who was worshipped on the banks of the Anio as a tenth Sibyl added to the nine mentioned by the Greek writers.

Falling into an argument with Agamemnon ( a guest who secretly holds Trimalchio in disdain ) Trimalchio reveals that he once saw the Sibyl of Cumae, who because of her great age was suspended in a flask for eternity ( 48 ).

He was succeeded by his son William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (?– 1254 ) who married Sibyl Marshall and then Margaret De Quincy with whom he had his son and heir Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby ( 1239 – 1279 ), who became the next Earl.

The Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli crowning the Campidoglio, Rome, is particularly associated with the Sibyl, because a medieval tradition referred the origin of its name to an otherwise unattested altar, said to have been raised to the " firstborn of God " by the emperor Augustus, who had been warned of his advent by the sibylline books: in the church the figures of Augustus and of the Tiburtine sibyl are painted on either side of the arch above the high altar.

It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithius, and was said to have given birth to the Sibyl, who is sometimes called Erythraea, from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus i. 55 ), and at others Gergithia (' of Gergis ').

In this spirit, a provincial Roman citizen who made the long journey from Bordeaux to Italy to consult the Sibyl at Tibur did not neglect his devotion to his own goddess from home:

If you look closely at the angels who attend the scary prophetess on the Sistine ceiling known as the Cumaean Sibyl, you will see that one of them has stuck his thumb between his fingers in that mysteriously obscene gesture that visiting fans are still treated to today at Italian football matches.

Famous yuan-ti in the Forgotten Realms include Zstulkk Ssarmn of the ruthless trade and slaving consortium the Iron Ring ; his nephew Nhyris D ' Hothek, one time possessor of the Crown of Horns ; the Serpent Sibyl, whose body was used as Sseth's avatar during the Time of Troubles ; the ruling House Extaminos family of Hlondeth, and the very powerful Scion, Zelia, who was featured prominently in the trilogy, " House of Serpents.

( it is her aunt Sibyl, sister of William, who married John de Vipont, Lord of Appleby )

The Delphic Sibyl was a legendary figure who made prophecies in the sacred precinct of Apollo at Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.

A new element, probably adopted from the Tiburtine Sibyl, was a Messiah-like Last Roman Emperor, who would be a central figure in apocalyptic literature until the end of the mediæval period.

When Dorian is telling Lord Henry Wotton about his new ' love ', Sibyl Vane, he refers to all of the Shakespearean plays she has been in, referring to her as the heroine of each play.

The Suidas lexicon refers that the Erythraean Sibyl was also called Samian.

According to one story, when Tarquin was approached by the Cumaean Sibyl, she offered him nine books of prophecy at an exorbitant price.

He decides to reconcile with Sibyl, but Lord Henry later informs him that she has killed herself by swallowing prussic acid.

In the 1st century BC., the Roman poet Virgil describes Charon in the course of Aeneas ’ s descent to the underworld ( Aeneid, Book 6 ), after the Cumaean Sibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return to the world of the living:

He accompanied Aeneas throughout his adventures, reaching Carthage with him in disguise when the pair were scouting the area, and leading him to the Sibyl of Cumae.

They do these evil activities under the guises of Blood Falcon, Death Crow, and Dark Pigeon, respectively and will later be known collectively as the " Sibyl Team ," after the disappearance of their Black Prince.

There was also a verb βακίζω " to prophesy ", secondarily derived from the name Bakis ( similarly to the case of σιβυλλίζω: Σίβυλλα " Sibyl ").

The Sibyl came from the Troad to Delphi before the Trojan War, " in wrath with her brother Apollo ", lingered for a time at Samos, visited Claros and Delos, and died in the Troad, after surviving nine generations of men.

A ruler of Sark, Dame Sibyl Hathaway, who was a speaker herself, claimed that it could " never be written down ", and this myth has continued in the years since then.

In that regard, the mythical seeress Sibyl of Anatolian origin, with her ecstatic art, looks unrelated to the oracle itself.

The Sibyl had no connection to the oracle of Apollo, and should not be confused with the Pythia.

It depicts pagan sages at the foot of the Tree of Jesse, with Galen between the Sibyl and Aristotle.

Female Figure ( Velázquez ) | Female Figure ( Sibyl with Tabula Rasa ) by Diego Velázquez, c 1648

Sibyl, whose only knowledge of love was love of theatre, casts aside her acting abilities through the experience of true love with Dorian.

However, he is deceived when Dorian fools James into thinking he is too young to have been involved with Sibyl 18 years earlier.

* Sibyl Vane – a beautiful and talented, but poor, actress and singer, with whom Dorian falls in love.

Some writers seem to have placed her at Delos instead of Delphi ; and Servius identifies her with the Cumaean Sibyl.

T. S. Eliot's seminal poem of cultural disintegration The Waste Land is prefaced by a verbatim quotation out of Trimalchio's account of visiting the Cumaean Sibyl, a supposedly immortal prophetess whose counsel was once sought on all matters of grave importance, but whose grotto by Neronian times had become just another site of local interest along with all the usual Mediterranean tourist traps:

:" For I myself saw the Cumaean Sibyl with my own eyes, hanging in a cruet, and when the boys asked her, Sibyl, what do you want ?, she answered, I want to die.

::(" Day of wrath, that day / will loose the age in ash / by the witness David with the Sibyl.

Eliot's The Waste Land is prefaced by a quote from Petronius ' Satyricon ( 1st century AD ) The passage translates roughly as " I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the boys said to her ' Sibyl, what do you want?

He quotes the Sibyl prophesies in the epic poem Aeneid, 6, 86-7, of " wars, terrible wars, / and the Tiber foaming with much blood.