Jocasta

Family: Theban · Role: wife of Laius · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Jocasta)

Life events

Jocasta hanged herself, and Oedipus was blinded and driven from Thebes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Oedipus
- “When the secret afterwards came to light, Jocasta hanged herself in a noose, and Oedipus was driven from Thebes , after he had put out his eyes”

married with Laius (The text gives Jocasta as one reported identity of Laius's wife.) “And he married a daughter of Menoeceus; some say that she was Jocasta, and some that she was Epicasta.”
child: Oedipus (Jocasta is Oedipus's mother in the narrative.) “Oedipus both succeeded to the kingdom and unwittingly married his mother”
married with Oedipus “Oedipus both succeeded to the kingdom and unwittingly married his mother”
parent: Menoeceus “And he married a daughter of Menoeceus; some say that she was Jocasta, and some that she was Epicasta.”
child: Polynices “and begat sons by her, Polynices and Eteocles, and daughters, Ismene and Antigone.”
child: Eteocles “and begat sons by her, Polynices and Eteocles, and daughters, Ismene and Antigone.”
child: Ismene “and begat sons by her, Polynices and Eteocles, and daughters, Ismene and Antigone.”
child: Antigone “and begat sons by her, Polynices and Eteocles, and daughters, Ismene and Antigone.”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.