Oedipus solved the Sphinx's riddle in the play Oedipus Rex ("Oedipus the King"). He alone understood that a people-killing Sphinx would pose an apparently unanswerable riddle about people.
The "riddle of the Sphinx" is: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the middle of the day, and three at night?
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Oedipus
Oedipus answered the sphinx's riddle and sphinx killed herself. Once the sphinx was gone the people of Thebes were safe.
Oedipus answered the riddle of the sphinx
Man
It is a misnomer that there is a 'riddle' of the Great Sphinx of Giza as this phrase is confused with the original Greek legend of The Riddle of the Sphinx. See the link below.
Oedipus solved the Sphinx's riddle in the play Oedipus Rex ("Oedipus the King"). He alone understood that a people-killing Sphinx would pose an apparently unanswerable riddle about people.
Sphinx
No it is not. The above riddle is the Riddle of the Sphinx. In Greek Mythology a sphinx would sit and ask every traveler that passed this riddle. If they could answer it the sphinx would destroy itself, but if they got it wrong, the sphinx would kill them.
oedipus solve the riddle
the Sphinx
The sphinx.
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The "riddle of the Sphinx" is: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the middle of the day, and three at night?