sphinx of Boeotian Thebes

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  • The Great Sphinx at Giza, 4th dynasty.
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    The winged sphinx of Boeotian Thebes, the most famous in legend, was said to have terrorized the people by demanding the answer to a riddle taught her by the Muses—What is it that has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?—and devouring a man…

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