Sphinx: video

A sphinx was a mythical monster, which had the head of a human and the body of a lion. Sphinxes also appeared in Egyptian mythology; the two cultures ...

Chapters

  • The riddle of the Sphinx: what
  • The Greek Sphinx was one creature
  • Every traveller got the same deal
  • Then a young man walked up
  • The Sphinx asked: what creature
  • Oedipus answered: a human
  • There was a second riddle
  • The Sphinx couldn't survive being answered
  • Here is the cruelty of Greek
  • The Greeks read the Sphinx