It was Oedipus who, by bravely confronting the Sphinx and solving its baffling riddle, thereby causing the Sphinx to throw itself off a rock, allowed the citizens of Thebes to regain their freedom ...

Paul Cartledge, in “Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece,” puts the city back on the cultural map, and makes a case for the Theban general Epaminondas as the Nelson of his day ...

Oedipus (Oidi-Pous, Swell-Foot) was another inhabitant of Thebes. He solved the riddle of the Sphinx: that man had four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening.

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered a sphinx buried in Luxor in Egypt—the site of the ancient city of Thebes—Egypt Today has reported. The newly uncovered sphinx is the latest treasure imparted by ...

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 ...

Nigerians who are well familiar with European literature must still remember an historical riddle of a sphinx in the city of Thebes. That city was once the capital of ancient Greece.

Sphinx Avenue Restored After 2,500 Years as Egypt Boosts Tourism. ... which links the famed temples of Luxor and Karnak in the historic settlement of Thebes on the Nile River’s eastern bank. ...