Discussions
- The Riddle of "The Sphinx": Difficult Questions and Troublesome Answers
- The Decadent Greek Sphinx: Drtikol, Khnopff, Bernard, and von Stuck
- The Riddle of the Sphinx: Honor and Dishonor in Rossetti's "Jenny"
Examples from the Visual Arts
- Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau
- Oedipus and the Sphinx by J. D. Ingres
- The Sphinx by Herbert Cole
- Sphinx and Dolphins, The Scottish Provident Institution, Belfast
- The Sphinx by Franz von Stuck
- The Kiss of the Sphinx by Franz von Stuck
- "Came the whisper, came the Vision" by W. Heath Robinson (from Song of the English)
- The Sphinx and the Gods by Raoul du Gardier
- After Joséphin Péladan, The Supreme Vice by Fernand Khnopff
- How Time Etches Our Wrinkles by Františec Bilek
- Sphinx by Valère Bernard
- The Chimera's Despair by Alexandre Séon
- Sphinx [Cleopatra] by Františec Drtikols
- Venus and the Sphinx by Antoine-Augustin Préault
Examples from Literature
- "The Sphinx" by Thomas Carlyle (chapter in Past and Present)
- "buried for a thousand years, in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes" by Thomas de Quincy (from Confessions of an English Opium Eater)
- "Child of the Sphinx" by Sheridan Le Fanu (chapter in Uncle Silas)
- "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller" by Lord Dunsany (short story)
- "The Sphinx" by Oscar Wilde (poem)
- "Jenny" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poem)
- "Spleen III [the Sphinx]" by Charles Baudelaire
Bibliography
Karoglou, Kiki. “Sphinxes: Tomb Guardians and Deadly Riddles” in “Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 75 (Winter 2018): 28-24.
Last modified 20 February 2018