literary form. Most surviving ancient Greek riddles are in verse. Though there may already have been anthologies of riddles written down in the Hellenistic...
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Rumpelstiltskin Riddles (Anglo-Saxon) Riddles (Arabic) Riddles (Chinese) Riddles (Finnic) Riddles (Greek) Riddles (Hebrew) Riddles (Persian) Riddle joke Charades...
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Sphinx (redirect from Sphinx' riddle)
androsphinx (Ancient Greek: ανδρόσφιγξ)), and is seen as a benevolent representation of strength and ferocity, usually of a pharaoh. Unlike Greek or Levantine/Mesopotamian...
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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...
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Exeter Book (redirect from Riddles of the Exeter Book)
almost a hundred riddles, numerous smaller heroic poems, and a quantity of elegiac verse. The moving elegies and enigmatic riddles are the most famous...
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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...
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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...
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(film), a 1921 German silent adventure film Riddle of the Sphinx (Ninjago), an episode of Ninjago Riddles of the Sphinx, 1977 film This disambiguation...
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Pollack joke) have a considerable amount of joke riddles. Elephant joke Lightbulb joke Newspaper riddle "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Radio Yerevan...
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Riddle-tales are traditional stories featuring riddle-contests. They frequently provide the context for the preservation of ancient riddles for posterity...
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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...
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Cyprus (redirect from Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus)
communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. From the 19th century onwards, the Greek Cypriot population pursued enosis, union with Greece, which became...
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Gátur Gestumblinda (redirect from Riddles of Heiðreks saga)
The riddles of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, also known as Gátur Gestumblinda ('Gestumblindi's riddles'), Heiðreks gátur ('Heiðrekr's riddles') and Heiðreksmál...
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Cleobulus (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
(/ˌklioʊˈbjuːləs, kliˈɒbjələs/; Greek: Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος, Kleoboulos ho Lindios; fl. 6th century BC[citation needed]) was a Greek poet and a native of Lindos...
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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...
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Sathariel (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
the Abyss, and conceptually portrayed as a black labyrinth of chaotic riddles. Knibb, Michael A. (1978). The Ethiopic Book Of Enoch (1982 reprint ed...
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Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach is a residential campus of Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, a private university focused on aviation...
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no. 2 (1990): 157–175. Abadzi, Helen. "Historical Greek-Albanian Relations: Some Mysteries and Riddles." Mediterranean Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2011): 41–60...
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Antikythera mechanism (redirect from Greek computer)
(/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[weasel words]...
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Puzzle (redirect from Zest Online Riddle)
were first documented are riddles. In Europe, Greek mythology produced riddles like the riddle of the Sphinx. Many riddles were produced during the Middle...
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What Is the Fastest Thing in the World? (category Greek fairy tales)
good and some bad. The king sent riddles to them: whoever guessed the riddles would get good land. The first riddle was what was the fastest thing in...
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of Cleobulus, known for her riddles Cleobulus sixth century BC poet, one of the Seven Sages of Greece Cleophon (poet) (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn), Athenian...
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Logic puzzles and riddles are specific types of brain teasers. One of the earliest known brain teaser enthusiasts was the Greek mathematician Archimedes...
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Eustathios Makrembolites (category Riddles)
Makrembolites (Greek: Εὐστάθιος Μακρεμβολίτης; fl. c. 1150–1200), Latinized as Eustathius Macrembolites, was a Byzantine revivalist of the ancient Greek romance...
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Question mark (redirect from Greek question mark)
is defined in Unicode at U+055E ◌՞ ARMENIAN QUESTION MARK. The Greek question mark (Greek: ερωτηματικό, romanized: erōtīmatikó) looks like ;. It appeared...
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orthography Greek primordial deities Greek riddles Greek sea gods Greek terracotta figurines Greek Theatre of Syracuse Greek tragedy Greek underworld Greek words...
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Eclogue 3 (category Riddles)
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...
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riddlers especially have produced long variations on the theme, often overlapping with riddles on pens and other writing equipment. Literary riddles have...
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Symphosius (category Riddles)
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...
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Liber epigrammatum (redirect from Riddles of Bede)
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...
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