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...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...
Foremost in the collection is the reclining Idaean Hercules. His body is graceful rather than Herculean, his face Attic rather than Theban. To him is attributed the glory of founding the Olympian games and it is no wonder that the Athenians represented him as more lithe, less ponderous than the deity venerated by the despised Boeotians. He reposes on lion skins, suggestive of swift strength, leisurely superior to operose muscularity...
...Madrid and other museums. St. Sebastian, who wears in his great beard the majesty of childhood; St. Jerome, with his riven ribs; grave St. Judas Tadeo, staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice, pure and warlike, standing under the banners among the soldiers of the Theban Legion and, again and again, St. Francis, friend of birds and lepers, upon whose still and mocking face broods the strange gaiety of holiness. St. Martin, among the holy men, rides on a white horse. He is a strange figure, with his sword and black armor in the company...
...wings of the Boston Opera House were crowded at 7 o'clock last night, when over 200 students from Harvard and Radcliffe, who had been engaged to act as the Theban mob in Sir John Martin-Harvey's production of "Oedipus Rex" appeared for their first performance...
...portions of the play in which the mob takes part is extraordinary in several respects. There is but one scene built on the stage, the orchestra is placed behind the stage, and the orchestra pit is covered with broad stairs. Up these stairs the Theban mob race from all parts of the house, streaming down the aisles from every entrance in the orchestra...