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Quotation from The Library (Bibliotheca) by Apollodorus (attributed)
“What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?”
The Library (Bibliotheca), Book III.5.8, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921)
The riddle the Sphinx, taught by the Muses, poses to the Thebans; Oedipus answers that it is man.
Citation: "What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?" — Apollodorus (attributed), The Library (Bibliotheca), Book III.5.8, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921). (id apollodorus-library-q5)
Portrait: Bibliotheke des Apollodor, Title page of an 1805 edition of the Bibliotheca, Public domain.
