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.
Oh, wretched Jocasta!
Just as her two sons had fallen and lay dying, their wretched mother came on the scene, her daughter with her, in great haste.
But when their mother saw this sad event, in her overmastering grief she snatched a sword from the dead, and did a fearful deed;
Oedipus Tyrannus
Jocasta's suicide by hanging after recognizing the incestuous truth of her marriage and childbearing.
Second Messenger:
our royal lady Iocasta is dead.
There we beheld the woman hanging by the neck in a twisted noose of swinging cords.