Jocasta
mythological figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 20 anchored passages
Iocasta · lady · Icasta · mother · mother of his children · mother-wife · my sister · queen · royal lady · wife
in the texts
Phoenissae
Queen of Thebes, wife and mother of Oedipus, mother of Eteocles and Polyneices, who narrates the family history and tries to reconcile her feuding sons.
Jocasta:
Jocasta:
Jocasta:
Oedipus Tyrannus
The queen of Thebes, Creon's sister and Oedipus' wife, who tries to resolve the feud and then supplies information about Laius' oracle, child, and death.
Creon:
Icasta:
Oedipus:
Orations
Mythological queen of Thebes, mother of Eteocles and Polynices, quoted urging her son to abandon ambition.
Take, for instance, the sons of Jocasta:
"Why, my son, art thou set upon Ambition, basest of divinities?
And indeed Euripides, no less famous than any of the poets, brings Jocasta in, speaking to Eteocles, urging him to desist from overreaching his brother, somewhat thus:
Antigone
Oedipus' mother and wife, remembered through her self-destruction as part of the family's inherited ruin.
then his mother-wife, two names in one, with a twisted noose destroyed her life;