Yet at its most vulnerable moment in the year 335 BC, Thebes was utterly abandoned by its luminaires. Overconfidence and ...

Father’s Day has just passed us by. Late being better than never, here is a belated salute to Father’s Day as celebrated by our old buddy Oedipus in Greek mythology land. If you think your family ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Sphinx of Thebes is not to be confused with the male Sphinx of Giza, in Egypt. Assyria, the Grecian and pre-Grecian settlements in Asia Minor, the Mayans of Yucatan also had their sphinxes.

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 ...

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 ...