Sphinx
Family: Theban · Role: monster · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5
🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Sphinx)
Life events
- Oedipus solved the Sphinx's riddle, causing her death and gaining the kingdom.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Oedipus
- “So the Sphinx threw herself from the citadel, and Oedipus both succeeded to the kingdom”
Apollodorus, Library 3.5
- parent: Echidna “For Hera sent the Sphinx, whose mother was Echidna and her father Typhon”
- parent: Typhon “For Hera sent the Sphinx, whose mother was Echidna and her father Typhon”
- mentor: Muses “And having learned a riddle from the Muses, she sat on Mount Phicium”
- with Hera (interaction) “For Hera sent the Sphinx, whose mother was Echidna and her father Typhon”
- enemies with Oedipus “So the Sphinx threw herself from the citadel, and Oedipus both succeeded to the kingdom”
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404
- parent: Orthus “But Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx”
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