...mythology of the Greeks. Lempriere, in his " Classic Dictionary," refers to them as " monsters which had the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. It sprang from the union of Orthos witli the Chimrcra, or of Typhon with Echidna....

...Juno, as the safeguard of women. So' ter. A Greek name of Jupiter, meaning deliverer. Sphinx, The. A monster having the head and breasts of a woman,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. She lived in the country near Thebes, and proposed to every passer-by the following...

...odious stench and polluted all they touched. The Sphinx was another composite fabled monster, / with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. According to the Grecian poets the animal infested the city of Thebes, devouring...

...consideration of the aesthetic problems involved, although like the fabulous Sphinx of ancient mythology—with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice—this curious artistic hybrid, consisting of music, poetry, drama, the plastic arts,...

...turning about on one of its axes. The terrestrial globe may be described as an oblate spheroid. Sphinx. A monster having the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle. The term is also applied to colossi of granite found in ancient Egypt....

...ot the Black Sea. i Sidon (sye'-don). Town in Syria on the Mediterranean coast. Sphinx. Monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog, the tail of a snake, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. Hera sent her to Boeotia, where...

...Washington on Hitchcock's Mount Rushmore. The sphinx of Greek antiquity, the reader will recall, has the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice: in other words, a Pee-wee character avant la lettre. The classical sphinx proposed...

...breasts of a woman, the body of a lion, and wings. However, the Theban sphinx described in legend had the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog, the claws of a lion, tail of a dragon, and wings of a bird. The Greeks associated her with initiation and...

...conscious with the unconscious; masculine with feminine. Sphinx In Greek mythology, a fabulous monster with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog or bull, the claws of a lion, the tail of a dragon and the wings of a bird. Lying crouched on a rock,...

...full attire, holding in her right hand a flower, and with the left lifting up her garment. Sphinx. A monster, having the head and breasts of a woman,...dog, the tail .of a serpent, the wings of a bird, and the paws of a lion. The Sphinx was sent into the neighborhood of Thebes by Juno, and here she propounded...