sphinx-ters - le 17 juin

At the entrance to the South Parterre, Versailles...





La Fontaine Saint-Michel...



OK, well I'm not sure if these are really considered Sphinx or not, seeing as they end with Serpents tails, but well, I am adding them here at any rate because they are rather impressive!




La Fontaine du Palmier at La Place du Châtelet...

sphinx-ters - place des vosges

The Sphinx (Greek again) was in one of the courtyards at Place des Vosges...

Seems she just had a Nose-Job... and if you ask me those breasts aren't real either! Look how perky they are!

sphinx-ters - théâtre daunou

Mythology Lesson time...

These are Greek Sphinxes, and not Egyptian. How do we know this?

Easy.

Greek Sphinxes have the body of a lion with wings and female heads.

Egyptian have no wings and typically have the head of lion with a male head, or occasionally with the head of a falcon, hawk, or ram.