Jabarkan Pencitraan sibyl modern dari Sibyl

A sardonic sequence of 'Twelve Sibyls', accompanied by the artist Leonard Baskin's woodcuts, revisits Sibyls and Others (1980). Ruth Fainlight has written dozens of poems about these ambiguous figures, bridging religion, classical and Biblical settings, femininity and modernity. One of them concludes: 'I am no more conscious of the prophecies / than I can understand the language of birds /…let the simple folk praise you, / keep you safe as a caged bird, / and call you a sibyl'.

Pjetër Bogdani, "The Songs of the Ten Sibyls" modern poetry, translated from Albanian

T.S. 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?' that one replied 'I want to die'.

The SIBYLS beamline at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, CA.

Sibyl is the oracular protagonist in an independent movie, currently in pre-production (2014). She foresees the destruction of the Colosseum as a plane full of nuclear waste is returned to its rightful owners, but can she prevent it from happening?