he was given the title of King of Thebes and the recently widowed Jocasta's hand in marriage.
he was given the title of King of Thebes and the recently widowed Jocasta's hand in marriage.
the reward is a whole thylacine
Well, I think the story is Tutmouse, a prince, slept on Sphinx's feet. Sphinx told him to dust the floor because it was making him sneeze and the reward will be being a prince! P.s my name starts with T.
The mythical creature that is half lion and asks riddles is the sphinx. In Greek mythology, the sphinx is known for posing riddles to travelers and killing those who could not answer correctly.
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.
That the reward for defeating the monstrous Sphinx is marrying her is the reason why Oedipus marries Jocasta In "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Jocasta is the widowed Queen of Thebes. The city is being terrorized by the monstrous Sphinx. Marriage is the reward for solving the Sphinx's riddle of what life form moves around on fours in the morning, twos in the afternoon and threes in the evening of life.
There wasn't an official reward for killing him. Harry's reward was knowing that the wizarding world was safe from him.
Considering that Osama bin Laden is dead already, the reward is defunct, but when he was alive, the reward was for $25 million. (The reward was never paid since the information on bin Laden came from electronic sources, not personal informants.)
The Egyptian Sphinx has the body of a lion and the head of a human. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx was a demon with a form like a winged lion with a woman's head, though sometimes she was depicted with a lion's paws, claws and breasts of a lion, a serpent's tail and the wings of an eagle. The Greek Sphinx was intelligent and terrorized an entrance to the city of Thebes, refusing passage - killing people - unless her riddle was solved. The hero odepius answear the question and the sphinx killed itself
It is because he defeats the Sphinx that the citizens of Thebes make Oedipus their king in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Sphinx asks a seemingly unsolvable riddle of all incoming and outgoing Thebes. Those who do not have an answer get killed and eaten by the Sphinx. A reward of marriage with widowed Queen Jocasta and job as king of Thebes is offered to whomever defeats the Sphinx. Oedipus knows the correct answer to the riddle, defeats the Sphinx, and gets the girl and the job.
That Oedipus will end the pestilence is what his success in defeating the Sphinx years before leads the priest to expect in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus answers the seemingly unanswerable riddle of the monstrous Sphinx. The Sphinx commits suicide. No one else figures out how to defeat the Sphinx so the priest hopes that Oedipus' successful problem-solving will be repeated in regard to the current pestilence.
Oedipus flees Corinth, kills five men, frees Thebes from the Sphinx and marries Jocasta is the sequence of events from first to last in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Oedipus runs away from Corinth to Delphi. On the way to Thebes, he kills five men: one older, arrogant stranger and four of his five-member escort party. Once at Thebes, Oedipus frees the city from the monstrous Sphinx and thereby wins the reward of marrying the city's beautiful, grieving widowed Queen Jocasta.