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Hero who answered the riddle of the sphinx?
Oedipus answered the riddle of the sphinx
What is the answer to the sphinx's riddle?
Man
How do you solve the puzzle in the sphinx in Giza?
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.
Who solved the Sphinx's riddle in 'Oedipus Rex'?
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.
Monster who torments with a riddle?
Sphinx
Is what has four legs in the morning two at noon and three in the evening in the Bible?
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.
Why did the sphinx kill herself?
oedipus solve the riddle
What was the greek mythicl creature that had a riddle?
the Sphinx
Who came up with the first riddle?
The sphinx.
Who is the hero who answered the riddle of the sphinx?
oddesyus
Is the riddle of the sphinx greek or Egyptian?
Greek.
In Oedipus the king what is the riddle of the Sphinx?
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?
