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- From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:51:52 GMT
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- Eshin-Fun (eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com) wrote:
- : The most popular is found in Ancient Greek myth in the story of Oedipus Rex.
- :
- : There the Phoenix asks a riddle:
- : "What is it, that has four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the
- : evening; and it is weakest when it has most legs?"
- :
- : For those that did not answer it, she devoured them or destroyed them; until
- : Oedipus comes along and answers the riddle. The Phoenix, sometimes called
- : sphinx, then plunges headlong off the cliff and kills itself leaving Oedipus
- : to become king.
-
- I didn't know the Sphinx was also called the Phoenix. What's your
- source?
-
- Another famous Phoenix -- just a name in this case, not a fabulous fowl
- -- the tutor of Achilles.
-
- Neil Bernstein
- Hooked on Classic
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