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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A tale of Greek mythology that tells the story of how Oedipus became the King of Thebes. Also this story first comes from Egypt, the Greek version has become the most widely known through the ages. Try to solve the riddle before you hear Oedipus' answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

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0:25.0

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0:26.0

Search zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. You're going to be. The Welcome to another episode of one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

1:07.0

The origins of this tale date back to about 35,000 years BC BC, to ancient Egypt.

1:14.0

And the form of the Sphinx is known to most of us as the great Sphinx of Egypt at Giza,

1:19.1

a huge carved statue representing the head of a human and the body of a lion.

1:24.0

The form and legend of the Sphinx very widely in the mythologies of a number of countries,

1:29.0

including Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, and many others.

1:33.4

And in Europe, where the image of the Sphinx became very popular in Renaissance art and

1:38.2

architecture, and especially in Greece after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and in doing so acquired much of ancient

1:46.0

Egyptian mythology and innovation. The riddle of the Sphinx originally comes from Egyptian mythology

1:52.4

but is best known in the Greek tales originally comes from Egyptian mythology,

1:52.6

but is best known in the Greek tales of Etopus.

1:56.3

Etopus was a king in Greek mythology ruling over the city of Thebes.

2:01.1

He was the son of King Leus and Queen Jocosta.

2:05.2

Not knowing he married his mother and had four children with her, Polynesis, Itiocles, Antigony, and Ismeen.

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