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# Oedipus and the Sphinx
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/edip-i-sfinks/
- Published: 2023-11-22T15:50:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:16.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Museums

Gustave Moreau, 1864.

On the road to Thebes, Oedipus met the Sphinx and had to solve her riddle: “What walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the evening?”