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What was the Sphynx' riddle that Oedipus answered after you figure that out what was the one word answer to it?
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"Which creature in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?" The answer is Man.
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Help find the answer to the riddle of the sphinx?
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 ) . ------- 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.
What is the answer to your riddle?
"The answer to my riddle" is not specific....Whose riddle? What riddle?
What is a puzzling question and rhymes with middle?
riddle
A riddle a riddle as you suppose a hundred eyes and never a nose what are you?
A Potato
Hero who answered the riddle of the sphinx?
Oedipus answered the riddle of the sphinx
What greek hero answered the riddle of the sphinx?
Oedipus :)))))
The greek hero who answered the riddle of the sphinx?
Oedipus
The hero who answered the sphinx riddle greek mythology?
Oedipus.
Who was the Hero that answered the riddle of the sphinx?
Oedipus, who became the King of Thebes.
How did Oedipus save the city andbecome king?
He answered the riddle of the Sphinx
Why did the citizens of Thebes make Oedipus their king in Oedipus king?
The Sphinx was holding Thebes captive until someone answered it's riddle. Desperate for relief, Creon offers whoever can answer the riddle the hand of his sister Jocasta, recently widowed. Oedipus comes along and solves the riddle, earning himself the throne.
How did Oedipus' encounter with the sphinx save thebes?
Oedipus answered the sphinx's riddle and sphinx killed herself. Once the sphinx was gone the people of Thebes were safe.
Why did the citizens of Thebes make Oedipus the king?
The Sphinx was holding Thebes captive until someone answered it's riddle. Desperate for relief, Creon offers whoever can answer the riddle the hand of his sister Jocasta, recently widowed. Oedipus comes along and solves the riddle, earning himself the throne.
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.
What happens to the Sphinx when Oedipus solves the riddle in 'Oedipus Rex'?
Suicide is what happens to the Sphinx when Oedipus solves the riddle in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Sphinx demands upon pain of death the answer to an impossible riddle. Oedipus figures out the answer and thereby deprives the Sphinx of her food supply. In despair, she throws herself over a nearby cliff.
What crisis afflicts the city of Thebes at the beginning of 'Oedipus Rex'?
a great sphinx had been terrorizing the city, not allowing anyone to pass unless they answered a riddle, if they answered correctly they lived and the sphinx would fly away, if incorrect than otherwise. Oedipus answered it correctly and got a place in the kingdom, soon he rose to be king by marrying the queen...
