Oedipus and the Sphinx, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Oedipus in company of the sphinx, a monster with the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle. He thinks sitting on her mystery: "What orphan is it that has a voice and in the morning on four, in the afternoon on two and in the evening on three feet?" Anyone who did not know the answer was torn apart by the sphinx. Bottom left the bodies of earlier victims of the sphinx. Japanese paper (handmade paper) Oedipus and the sphinx; he solves the riddle. the corpse

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