Jocaste
In the Greek Mythology, Jocaste , Iocaste (in Greek old Ἰοκάστη / Iokástê ) or Épicaste ( Ἐπικάστη / Epikástê ) in the Odyssey , girl of Ménécée and sister of Créon, is the wife of Laïos then of his/her own son, Oedipus, of whom it will have four children, two boys (Étéocle and Polynice) and two girls (Antigone and Ismène). It is hung when it learns the truth from the bonds linking it in Oedipus.
Jocaste always appears in the second plan in the myths as in the Greek tragedies. Two preserved parts put it in scene as a character: Oedipus king of Sophocle and Phéniciennes of Euripide. Besides this last work presents curiously the couple incestueux always in life well after the revelation, at the time of the duel fraticide of their two sons: it is only at the conclusion of this fatal combat that she dies while committing suicide above their corpses (1455-1459).
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(XI, 271).
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