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The Sphinx is the winged maiden in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the term Sphinx describes a creature of mixed animal and human body parts. She has the face of a beautiful woman. But her head sits on top of a lion's body out of which grow a pair of wings.

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