Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau that was first exhibited at the French "Salon" of 1864 where it was an immediate success. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work was a fresh treatment of the established subject of the meeting between Oedipus and the Sphinx on the road to Delphi, notably portrayed at Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex. The painting depicts Oedipus meeting the Sphinx at the crossroads on his journey between Thebes and Delphi. Oedipus must answer the Sphinx's riddle correctly in order to
Oedipus Rex Schickele parodies both the story of "Oedipus rex" and the music of Stravinsky's oratorio-opera of the same name in "Oedipus Tex", a Western-themed oratorio purportedly written by P.D.Q. Bach, released in 1990 on the album "Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities". Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou makes a parody of this tragedy in his comedy "Medea" (1993). In episode ten of the second season of '"CNNNN"', an Australian satirical television program made by The Chaser, a short animation in the style of a Disney movie trailer, complete with jaunty music provided by Andrew Hansen, parodies "Oedipus Rex". Apart from being advertised as