KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -In Greek tradition, the sphinx is a treacherous and merciless being with the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion, and the wings of a bird. According to Greek myth, she challenges those who encounter her to answer a riddle, and kills and eats them when they fail to do so.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sphinx is the human-headed lion in ancient Greek mythology; the term likely came into use some 2, 000 years after the statue was built. There are hundreds of tombs at Giza with hieroglyphic inscriptions dating back some 4, 500 years, but not one mentions the statue.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though the Greek Sphinx was female, Eastern sphinxes could be either sex. The Egyptian sphinx, for example, often represented the pharaoh or the male gods he embodied and thus had a male rather than a female head-what the Greeks sometimes called the “androsphinx” (, “man-sphinx”).