描述
She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless, and will kill those who can't answer her riddle.This deadly version of a sphinx appears in the myth of Oedipus. Ares sent the Sphinx from her Aethiopian homeland to Thebes in Greece where she asked all passersby the most famous riddle in history: "Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?" She strangled and devoured anyone who could not answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: "Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age