A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

They believe elements of some enigmatic sites - such as the Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt and the megalithic temples around it - could be at least 8,000 years older than conventional wisdom holds.

Archaeologists have unearthed a sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt, the antiquities ministry says. The artefacts were found near the Hathor ...

Continuing on his way, Oedipus learns that King Laius has recently been slain and that the city stands threatened by the Sphinx: it bars the road and will kill and eat anyone who cannot solve a ...

“In Greek mythology, the sphinx killed every traveler who failed to answer her riddle, until Oedipus finally solved it, ...

Help us keep bring these critical stories to light. Your support makes all the difference. This Oedipus rose to power by promising to blast away hypocrisy and keep no secrets, but now his shining ...

In the corner of the wide white anonymous modern room that comprises the set of Robert Icke’s free adaptation of Oedipus Rex, a digital clock ticks down the seconds to zero. It’s a trick Icke ...

Where Sophocles emphasised the role of fate in Oedipus’s tragedy, the way that all-unknowing ... who solves the riddle of the Sphinx in a conversation with the already challenging Antigone (Phia Saban ...

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