Red figured Kylix

Exact museum reproduction of a fine ancient Greek red figured
Kylix. (more information on Red figure pottery…)

Our Greek pottery items are handmade in Greece in a small family
workshop using natural quality materials, superb craftsmanship and
attention to detail. They are licensed and modeled after museum
pieces from all over the world and bear the lead seal of authenticity.

This kylix features Oedipus & the Sphinx. The Sphinx was a winged
monster with a woman’s head and a lion’s body. Her victims, in order
to avoid being torn to pieces, were challenged to answer the following
riddle “What creature is two-legged, three-legged and four-legged and
weakest of limb when it walks in more than two legs?” Her victims
were many but Oedipus gained the throne of Thebes by answering the
riddle and thus freeing the city from the terrible monster. His answer
“Man, who begins life in all fours and ends life leaning on a cane.”
470 B.C. Etruscan Museum, Vatican.

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