literary form. Most surviving ancient Greek riddles are in verse. Though there may already have been anthologies of riddles written down in the Hellenistic...

Rumpelstiltskin Riddles (Anglo-Saxon) Riddles (Arabic) Riddles (Chinese) Riddles (Finnic) Riddles (Greek) Riddles (Hebrew) Riddles (Persian) Riddle joke Charades...

androsphinx (Ancient Greek: ανδρόσφιγξ)), and is seen as a benevolent representation of strength and ferocity, usually of a pharaoh. Unlike Greek or Levantine/Mesopotamian...

sources'. Year-riddles are numbered 984, 1037 and 1038 in Archer Taylor's English Riddles from Oral Tradition. As a folktale motif, the riddle is motif H721...

Pollack joke) have a considerable amount of joke riddles. Elephant joke Lightbulb joke Newspaper riddle "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Radio Yerevan...

(film), a 1921 German silent adventure film Riddle of the Sphinx (Ninjago), an episode of Ninjago Riddles of the Sphinx, 1977 film This disambiguation...

pre-eminent composer of Latin riddles in early medieval England was Aldhelm (d. 709), while the Old English verse riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter...

almost a hundred riddles, numerous smaller heroic poems, and a quantity of elegiac verse. The moving elegies and enigmatic riddles are the most famous...

solutions to the riddle. Aspects of the surrounding narrative have also been interpreted in various ways, with parallels being drawn to Greek myths of lion-killing...

The riddles of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, also known as Gátur Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'), Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál...

Riddle-tales are traditional stories featuring riddle-contests. They frequently provide the context for the preservation of ancient riddles for posterity...

Dover's work Greek Homosexuality, the terms erastês and erômenos have been standard for the two pederastic roles. Both words derive from the Greek verb erô...

British rule. As soon as the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821, several Greek Cypriots left for Greece to join the Greek forces. In response, the...

symbols. Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries...

no. 2 (1990): 157–175. Abadzi, Helen. "Historical Greek-Albanian Relations: Some Mysteries and Riddles." Mediterranean Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2011): 41–60...

the Abyss, and conceptually portrayed as a black labyrinth of chaotic riddles. Knibb, Michael A. (1978). The Ethiopic Book Of Enoch (1982 reprint ed...

(/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also /ˌæntaɪkɪˈ-/ AN-ty-kih-) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest...

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach is a residential campus of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, a private university focused on aviation...

were first documented are riddles. In Europe, Greek mythology produced riddles like the riddle of the Sphinx. Many riddles were produced during the Middle...

contains a thixotropic gel, he also explained on the Blood Miracle of Riddles of the Dead series on National Geographic Channel. In such a substance...

Logic puzzles and riddles are specific types of brain teasers. One of the earliest known brain teaser enthusiasts was the Greek mathematician Archimedes...

(/ˌklioʊˈbjuːləs, kliˈɒbjələs/; Greek: Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος, Kleoboulos ho Lindios; fl. 6th century BC[citation needed]) was a Greek poet and a native of Lindos...

of Cleobulus, known for her riddles Cleobulus sixth century BC poet, one of the Seven Sages of Greece Cleophon (poet) (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn), Athenian...

circumstantial evidence in the content of the riddles suggests that Symphosius was writing in Roman North Africa. The riddles themselves, written in tercets of dactylic...

orthography Greek primordial deities Greek riddles Greek sea gods Greek terracotta figurines Greek Theatre of Syracuse Greek tragedy Greek underworld Greek words...

A pair of riddles end the contest, which appear to be Virgil's innovation, since there is no parallel to them in Theocritus. These riddles have been much...

is defined in Unicode at U+055E ◌՞ ARMENIAN QUESTION MARK. The Greek question mark (Greek: ερωτηματικό, romanized: erōtīmatikó) looks like ;. It appeared...

riddlers especially have produced long variations on the theme, often overlapping with riddles on pens and other writing equipment. Literary riddles have...

equivocal on the question. The riddles are accompanied by an extensive commentary. In Tupper's estimation, . Lapidge edited the riddles as one thirty-two-line...

Sheba. Most of these riddles are simply Bible questions, some not of a very edifying character. The two that are genuine riddles are: "Without movement...