There is no riddle of the Sphinx,
the question/ riddle is what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at midday and three legs in the evening.
the answer would be a human. as in the morning of someones life they are a baby or toddler, so they would crawl on four legs, at midday it refers to an adult ( who walks on two legs ) while in the evening the human is old and uses a walking stick ( equals three legs ) .
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There IS a riddle of the Sphinx. Created in Oedipus when Oedipus needed to get to Thebes, he came across a Sphinx blocking his path who asked him this riddle. He gave the correct answer and went on.
Man
This is not excactly a riddle about greek. It's a greek riddle. It's the riddle the Sphinx asks in the Labrynith. What
The Rhyme of the Sphinx refers to the riddle posed by the mythical creature in Greek mythology. The most famous of these riddles is: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" The answer is "man," as he crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and uses a cane as an elderly person. Failure to answer the riddle would result in the Sphinx devouring the individual.
I am answering the previous answer asking where the riddle starts, it starts with CLAIMED.
"The answer to my riddle" is not specific....Whose riddle? What riddle?
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.
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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
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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?