La pagina della sfinge. L’enigma di Antioco nella Historia Apollonii regis Tyri

The first and most important aenigma of the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri is paradoxically the only one that remains unsolved in the whole story: neither it is actually explained by the protagonist nor it has yet received a definite answer by modern scholars. For this passage, on the contrary, the main commentaries provide only generic interpretations and/or different possible links to the main plot, rather than a real, convincing solution. This article proposes a new, simple explanation for the apparently inconsistent riddle, a solution some way “found in the books” and a possible “title” for it.