1) American thriller novel 2) Ancient Greek art 3) Ancient riddler 4) Beast with the body of a lion 5) British role-playing game 6) Creature with a riddle 7) Daughter of Typhon 8) Egyptian landmark 9) Egyptian legendary creature 10) Egyptian tourist attraction 11) Egyptian with a riddle 12) Enigmatic one
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1) Enigma 2) Oracle
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• (n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy. • (n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called al...
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mythological creature with a lion`s body and human head, an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend. The word sphinx was derived by ... [3 related articles]
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Mythological creature, depicted in Egyptian, Assyrian, and Greek art as a lion with a human head. The Greek Sphinx of Thebes was winged with a woman's breasts, and was adopted as an emblem of...
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1. In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. 'The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx.' (Shelley) ... On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face ...
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Sphinx noun [ Latin , from Greek
sfi`gx , usually derived from
sfi`ggein to bind tight or together, as if the Throttler.]
1. (a) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lio...
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The half-human, half-lion that forces those it meets to answer its riddles, or die.
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In Greek mythology the sphinx had the body of a lion, the head of a woman and wings like an eagle
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The Sphinx is a composite monster which appears in both Greek and Egyptian mythology. Both sphinx have the body of a lion and the head of a man - though the Egyptians had also two other sphinx with the head of a ram or a hawk. The Greek sphinx has wings, the Egyptian does not. In Greek mythology, the Sphinx posed a riddle to all who sought to pass....
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n] - an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret 2. [n] - (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman`s head and breast on a lion`s body 3. [n] - one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
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[Greek mythology] a winged monster with a lion's body and the head and breasts of a woman. Here, the monster who plagued Thebes by devouring anyone who could not answer her riddle.
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a mythical female being with the head of a human and the body of a lion; sent by Hera, she ravaged Thebes until Oedipus solved her riddle (Oedipus the King).
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A figure with the body of a lion and the head of a man, hawk or a ram.
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noun one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
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Mythological creature, depicted in Egyptian, Assyrian, and Greek art as a lion with a human head. The Greek Sphinx of Thebes was winged with a woman's breasts, and was adopted as an emblem of wisdom. She killed all those who failed to answer her riddle about which animal went on four, then two, a...
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Most often a combination of the body of a lion with the head of a human. Kings desired to combine their own images with that of the lion in order to absorb the power of the animal. The sphinx was also associated with the sun god.
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The ageless Sphinx is the world's oldest riddle. A reclining statue of a lion with the head of a man, it is partly carved from the plateau rock near the Great Pyramid. The fact that it is rapidly falling apart, is all that is known with any great certainty about the Sphinx. Underwent extensive restoration work in late 1990`s.
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Monster of Thebes; killed those who could not answer her riddle; slain by Oedipus. Name also refers to other monsters having body of lion, wings, and head and bust of woman.
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