{"id":3005,"date":"2020-09-22T18:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italics.art\/tip\/inside-the-sibyls-cave\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:10:47","slug":"inside-the-sibyls-cave","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/italics.art\/en\/tip\/inside-the-sibyls-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Sibyl\u2019s Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One place with deep local ties that I’d recommend is the Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl. According to Virgil, this is where the legendary prophetess lived: this is one of the most important places of worship in the ancient world, along with Delphi and Erythra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always imagined this place \u2013 a bare tunnel, uninhabited for centuries \u2013 and its cult, somewhere between the creases of a Neapolitan, heterodox and pluralist Christianity \u2013 as the subterranean path to Neapolitan history and culture, its aura of mysticism, power, its sacred and profane, its majesty and decadence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sibyl\u2019s Cave, Cuma Archaeological Park (Pozzuoli, NA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This place evokes that indelible brand of fatalism of a people resigned to the unstoppable onslaught of events, that alleged atavistic limit of a geographical portion and its inhabitants. Instead, I’ve always understood this as a mechanism of social functioning, of passive defense, cleverly recycled to absorb the blow of the counter-reformation, colonialism and globalization. The Sibyl\u2019s cave is a fragmentary myth; a cultural assemblage<\/em> devoted to justifying the city and its culture; its capacity to absorb the blow of colonialism and give it back in its own way in spades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What always strikes me is how eager the artists are to visit the oracle’s cave, the way their words are charged with energy during their visits to this place. I like to put these experiences down to the cult\u2019s vitality. Even today, it still has the power to validate its city\u2019s culture, history and art. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One place with deep local ties that I’d recommend is the Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl. According to Virgil, this is where the legendary prophetess lived: this is one of the most important places of worship in the ancient world, along with Delphi and Erythra. 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