The mythological creature with a lion’s body and a human head is an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend.
The word sphinx was derived by Greek grammarians from the verb sphingein (“to bind” or “to squeeze”), but the etymology is not related to the legend and is dubious. Hesiod, the earliest Greek author to mention the creature, called it Phix
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