The Sphinx's Riddle

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    The Sparta dragon novel

    Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer

    The riddles come from the lexicon of this novel. A dragon is the reason the 300 died. Sixty-two years later a seven-year-old of the agoge falls into its crypt and inherits the unpaid balance.

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    Each clue is harder to miss than the last. A wrong guess reveals the next clue. Every answer is a god, creature, hero, place or custom attested in ancient sources (Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Plutarch, Pausanias and others), and the sources are cited in the fourth clue. A new riddle appears at midnight Pacific time. Developers: the same data is a free Greek mythology API.