The sphinx was a curious amalgam of ferocious beasts that had parked itself on the road leading to the city of Thebes. People seeking to leave or enter Thebes were asked to answer its riddle to ...

Unlike the Egyptian Sphinx, the Greek Sphinx was anything but peaceful; it terrorized the inhabitants of Thebes, as well as any travelers wishing to enter the city, by posing riddles to them.

Oedipal patricide and incest and civil war between brothers (the Seven Against Thebes); or maybe it is a crossroads, with a female monster, the Sphinx, at its center, asking her lethal riddle with ...

On a recent trip to Egypt, I found that the city of Luxor, once the ancient capital of Thebes and often called the world's "largest open-air museum," held far more fascinating ancient Egyptian ...

Although Oedipus is best known for marrying his mother, Queen Jocasta of Thebes, he only did so after solving the riddle of the Sphinx. The Sphinx in this story is not the well-known Sphinx on the ...

In the Greek tradition, the Sphinx is a demon of misfortune and destruction. It guarded the city of Thebes and pressed a riddle upon any traveller wishing to pass by its station; anyone who got ...

Cherian journeyed back to Thebes, where the Sphinx originated, after his presentation in Crete. “The Sphinx was a hugely popular character in Mediterranean mythology, with strong links to the ...

It. was left to the King of Plataeae to bury both corpses. Laius had been about to ask the Oracle how he might rid Thebes of the Sphinx. This monster, a daughter of Typhon and Echidne or ...

Ancient Thebes was home to some of the greatest monuments ... is nearly as familiar as the Sphinx or Pyramids at Giza. The primary structure was built during the reigns of Amenhotep III and ...

Riddle of the Sphinx is neither a remake of the confounding game by Imagic for the Atari 2600 nor a retelling of Oedipus saving Thebes. Instead, the game takes the plot from Infocom's text-based ...