What Oedipus learns—that he is in fact the murderer—does not sit well, and here, we get a glimpse of the old Oedipus as he rebukes Teiresias: How was it that when the Sphinx was here, ...

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 children with her.

We today associate Oedipus with a certain unsettling Freudian psychosexual theory, but in ancient Greece, Oedipus was a hero for having freed his city from the terrors of the Sphinx. It was ...

When a Sphinx muscles into the world of "Greek" — British dramatist Steven Berkoff's retelling of the Oedipus story — she's a nightmare within a nightmare. With treadmill-like determination ...

Riddle of the Sphinx is neither a remake of the confounding game by Imagic for the Atari 2600 nor a retelling of Oedipus saving Thebes. Instead, the game takes the plot from Infocom's text-based ...

Bid now on Oedipus and the Sphinx (after Ingres) by Francis Bacon. View a wide Variety of artworks by Francis Bacon, now available for sale on artnet Auctions.

The present lot is from Vik Muniz’s series Pictures of Junk. With the help of art students from outside of Rio, Muniz recreated Ingres's rendition of the mythological story of Oedipus and Sphinx.

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 children with her.