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Subject: Re: misunderstanding Oedipus
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In a message dated 00-07-09 10:47:40 EDT, you write:

<< http://www.usask.ca/antharch/cnea/CourseNotes/Oed.html >>
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  looking through the Sask. Site yields this howler:

 << Thebes was beset by the evil *Sphinx, a winged female monster, usually 
pictured as a winged dog with a woman's head. >>

  an unknown variant...

Allen Koenigsberg
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