- Information
- monster that terrorises Thebes
- Rationalized form
- 👤 Sphinx (rationalized)
- Daughter of
- 👤 the Chimaira 👤 Echidna 👤 Laios 👤 Typhon 👤 Orthos (dog)
- Kills
- 👤 Haimon (Theban)
- Dies at
- 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Phicion (Boiotia)
- Killed by
- 👤 Oedipus
- Related Entities
- 👤 Cassandra 👤 the Chimaira 👤 Echidna 👤 Hera 👤 Hades 👤 Haimon (Theban) 👤 Iocaste 👤 Laios 👤 Typhon 👤 Orthos (dog) 👥 the Muses 👤 the Nemean Lion 👥 the Sirens 👤 Oedipus 🏺 the Head of Medousa 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Phicion (Boiotia) 🌍 Anthedon (Boiotia) 👤 Cumaean Sibyl
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.8 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1-19 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1461-1474 📖 Pausanias 1.24.5 📖 Pausanias 5.11.2 📖 Oedipodia fr. 1 Davies 📖 Pausanias 9.26.2-9.26.4 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 32-54 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 306-332 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 784-830 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1019-1066 📖 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 526-560 📖 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 742-790 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 4 📖 Corinna fr. 672 PMG 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1480-1581 📖 Ovid, Ibis 377-378 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.759-795
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Hesiod, Theogony Lycophron, Alexandra Oedipodia Pausanias Corinna Euripides, Phoenician Women Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Ovid, Ibis Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Depictions
- 🎨 Attic Black-Figure Lekythos (CAMU Δ 56) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Cubicoli Floreali I 9, 5, Pompeii (PALP r1-i9-p5-space-11) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Vasi di Vetro VI 5, 5, Pompeii (PALP r6-i5-p5-space-12) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Private Dwelling IX 2, 18, Pompeii (PALP r9-i2-p18-space-f) 🎨 Levantine Lead Sarcophagus (MUHM MU4199) 🎨 Attic Red-Figure Lekythos attributed to the Achilles Painter (NGV D394-1980; Beazley 213911; LIMC Oidipous 23)
- Reported depictions
- 🏺 the Shield of Parthenopaios 🎨 Cult Statue of Athena Parthenos, Athens, by Pheidias (LIMC Aigeus 43) 🎨 Cult Statue of Zeus at Olympia by Pheidias (LIMC Zeus 89)