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A hero is someone who does great deeds and who also may have great powers. The description applies to Theban King Oedipus. He does something that no one else manages to do. He defeats the Sphinx at her own game. She terrorizes the people of Thebes into paying exorbitant taxes. Additionally, she kills all Theban residents and visitors who try to enter or leave the city. She does so by posing an impossible riddle. Oedipus alone figures out that a human being is the life form that gets around on fours in the morning of life, on twos in the afternoon, and on threes in the evening.

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