2006-10-04 04:55:40 · 16 answers · asked by Melissa W 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
That the riddle of the Sphinx - the answer is Man.
2006-10-04 05:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by EvilBunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guy the monster develop into the sphinx and the fee develop into Orthos "A Sphinx, a beast of double sort, had come to Thebes and develop into propounding a riddle to all and sundry who might want to be in a position to sparkling up it, and many were being slain through her because of their lack of ability to finish that. And even with if a beneficiant reward develop into presented to the guy who could sparkling up it, that he could marry Jokaste and be king of Thebes, yet no guy develop into in a position to understand what develop into propounded except Oidipous, who on my own solved the riddle. What were propounded through the Sphinx develop into this: what's it it quite is at the same time a biped, a triped, and a quadraped? And even as all some thing were wondered, Oidipous declared that the animal proposed in the riddle develop into ‘guy’, because as an toddler he's a quadruped, even as grown a biped, and in previous age a triped, using, because of his ailment, a paintings force. At this answer the Sphinx, in accordance with the oracle which the myth recounts, threw herself down a precipice." - Diodorus Siculus, Library of historic previous 4.sixty 4.4
2016-12-04 06:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a human being.
it is a baby in the early stages of life (morning) so he crawls on 2 legs and 2 hands (altogether 4).
in its developed stage the human walks on 2 feet (noon)
and as the human ages and gets older, he uses a cane, thats the 3rd leg (evening)
2006-10-04 04:59:13 · answer #3 · answered by statistics 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Human Beings ofcourse, the ancient riddle
2006-10-04 05:05:37 · answer #4 · answered by poloneck20 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man- First he crawls, then he walks on his two feet and afterwards he does so with a help of a cane.
2006-10-04 05:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by nv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a human. As a baby it crawls, then it grows up to walk and and as an old man it uses a cane.
2006-10-04 04:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by xiorcalm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man. It 's the riddle of the Sphinx.
2006-10-04 04:58:04 · answer #7 · answered by boredperv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The riddle of the Sphinx.....Man
2006-10-04 05:29:41 · answer #8 · answered by crazycanadien 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man in his stages of life...old riddle...
2006-10-04 05:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any of the great apes or humans.
2006-10-04 05:07:55 · answer #10 · answered by Meow the cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋