Sphinx

Role: riddle-propounding monster · First appears: Fable 68

Life events

• Œdipus solves the Sphinx’s riddle, and the defeated monster is precipitated.(Fable68 · 📍 Aonian Thebes)
  • With: Œdipus
  • “The son of Laius[113] had solved the verses not understood by the wit of others before him; and the mysterious propounder lay precipitated, forgetful of her riddle.”

Fable 68

• parent: Typhon “The Sphinx was a monster, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, which haunted a mountain near Thebes.”
• parent: Echidna “The Sphinx was a monster, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, which haunted a mountain near Thebes.”
• with Œdipus (Œdipus solved the riddle posed by the Sphinx.) “Œdipus solved the riddle which it proposed for solution, on which the monster precipitated itself from a rock.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.