Ancient Greek Riddles

Are you as clever as Oedipus? Will you inherit a kingdom in ancient Greece? See how many of these riddles you can solve. All the best and good luck!

Riddle # 1

At night they come without being fetched, And by day they are lost without being stolen.

What are they?

Hint: They belong to the night.

Riddle # 2

Runs over fields and woods all day

Under the bed at night sits not alone,

With long tongue hanging out,

A-waiting for a bone.

What am I?

Hint: It’s something very close to you.

Riddle # 3

The beginning of eternity

The end of time and space

The beginning of every end,

And the end of every place.

What am I?

Hint: It’s in front of you right now.

Riddle # 4

The land was white the seed was black it’ll take a good scholar to riddle me that.

What is it?

Riddle # 5

I saw an unusual book:

The foreword comes after the epilogue;

The end is in the first half of the book;

The index comes before the introduction.

Name the book.

Riddle # 6

We are such little tiny creatures;

all of us have different features.

One of us in glass is set;

One of us you’ll find in jet.

Another you may see in tin,

and the fourth is boxed within.

If the fifth you should pursue,

it can never fly from you.

What are we?

Riddle # 7

I never was, am always to be,

No one ever saw me, nor ever will

And yet I am the confidence of all

To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.

What is it?

Hint: It never comes.

Riddle # 8

My 1st is a wish or a dream

My 2nd is a trust or belief

My 3rd is a good feeling of the heart

My 4th means the fates be with ya.

What am I?

Riddle # 9

I can be smooth as silk when you touch me

Yet hard as rock when you hit me

I can be crystal clear

Or dark as pitch

I can be still and silent

Or I can rumble and roar.

What am I ?

Riddle # 10

What do men love more than life,

Fear more than Death or mortal strife;

What poor men have, and rich require,

And what contented men desire.

What the miser spends, yet the spendthrift saves;

And all men carry to their graves?

What am I?

Bonus Riddle

What walks on 4 legs when it is morning, on 2 legs at noon and on 3 legs in the evening?

Hint: The Sphinx supposedly used this one.