Chapter 14: Thebes
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♦ Stuttgart, Landesmuseum Württemberg Arch 65/15: Chalkidian? black-figure amphora with Sphinx on column and seated Oidipous, surrounded by eight grieving women
Hesiod, Theogony 326-27
But Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans. Greek Text
Oidipodeia fr 1 PEG (Poetae Epici Graeci) 1, p. 20, ed. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
Fairest and most desirable of all, the child of Kreon, glorious Haemon. (Translated by T. N. Gantz)
∑ Phoinissai (Phoenician Women) 1031 Scholia in Euripidem, ed. E. Schwartz, vol. 1. Berlin 1887, p. 358 = fr178 N²
ApB 3.5.8 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)
For Hera sent the Sphinx, whose mother was Echidna and her father Typhon; and she had the face of a woman, the breast and feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird. And having learned a riddle from the Muses, she sat on Mount Phicium, and propounded it to the Thebans. Greek Text
♦ Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi 25418: Attic black-figure cup by the C Painter, Sphinx and youths (one under her belly)
P. Orsi, “Nuove antichità di Gela,” Monumenti antichi della Reale Accademia dei LIncei 19 (1908/10) 99-100 fig. 8
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Athens, National Museum 397: Attic black-figure lekythos with Sphinx carrying off youth
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Aischylos, Hepta (Seven Against Thebes) 539-44
Nor does he take his stand at the gate unboasting, but wields our city’s shame on his bronze-forged shield, his body’s circular defence, on which the Sphinx who eats men raw is cleverly fastened with bolts, her body embossed and gleaming. She carries under her a single Cadmean, so that against this man chiefly our missiles will be hurled. Greek Text
♦ Kiel, Antikensammlung B553 (not B555, as Gantz): Attic red-figure lekythos, with Sphinx carrying youth
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Athens, National Museum, 1607. Attic red figure lekythos. Sphinx and victim.
♦ Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.AE.377. Attic red figure lekythos by the Kleomelos Painter. Sphinx and victim.
J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2020
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