Death of Jocasta
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Iocasta is dead · Jocasta's suicide · by her own hand · hanging by the neck · twisted noose
in the texts
Phoenissae
Jocasta's suicide over the bodies of her two dead sons after arriving too late to stop their duel.
But when their mother saw this sad event, in her overmastering grief she snatched a sword from the dead, and did a fearful deed;
Just as her two sons had fallen and lay dying, their wretched mother came on the scene, her daughter with her, in great haste.
Oh, wretched Jocasta!
Oedipus Tyrannus
Jocasta's suicide by hanging after recognizing the incestuous truth of her marriage and childbearing.
There we beheld the woman hanging by the neck in a twisted noose of swinging cords.
our royal lady Iocasta is dead.
To and fro he went, asking us to give him a sword, asking where he could find the wife who was no wife, but a mother whose womb had borne both him and his children. And in his frenzy a power greater than mortal man was his guide, for it was none of us mortals who were near.