Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE

"For whom have the Gods and divinities that share their altar and the thronging assembly of men ever admired so much as they honored Oidipous (Oedipus) then, when he removed that deadly, man-seizing plague (kêr) [i.e. the Sphinx] from our land."

-Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 773 ff 

Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE. The Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums, Rome.

Source:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oedipus-Greek-mythology

Quote:

https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Sphinx.html