Oidipous (page 495, with art)

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

Landesmuseum Württemberg

Digital LIMC

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 Euripidemed. E. Schwartz, vol. 1. Berlin 1887, p. 358  = fr178 N²

Greek Text

ApB  3.5.8Apollodoros, 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

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Athens, National Museum, 1607.  Attic red figure lekythos.  Sphinx and victim.

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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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