now this is one thing that i should definitely get some pages written on:

John Heath-Stubbs : The Theban Sphinx.

Her last riddle, the one
Oedipus did not solve was this:
That she herself, winged lion with a pitiless face,
Was also royal Jocasta, who would finish
Hanging from a palace beam, a hempen neckinger
Around her delicate throat.


But it was enough, he had demonstrated
That he was a king, a cunning man,
Clever enough to be the bridegroom
Of Turandot, or Antiochus's daughter.