The name "sphinx" come from an ancient Greek WORD, meaning " strangler" According to Greek legend, the Sphinxwas a demon with the body of a winged lion,and the head of a woman.She sat beside a road and asked all people who passed her a riddle: "Which animal in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and on three in the evening?" She strangled anyone who could not make sense of the question. The riddle was finally solved by the Greek king, Oedipus. The answer was man, who crawls on hands and knees as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and finally walks with a cane in old age. The Sphinx then threw herself from her high rock and died.