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Jocasta

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus.





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... of the Sphinx; and when the The'bans heard the joyful news of its death, they welcomed OEdipus with much joy. In reward for his bravery, they gave him not only the throne, but also the hand of Jocasta, the widowed queen. It was thus that OEdipus, although he did not know it, fulfilled the second part of the prophecy, and married his ...
— The Story of the Greeks • H. A. Guerber
... either case but one person, first Oedipus, then Jocasta; but the expansion of number into the plural gives an impression of multiplied calamity. So ...
— On the Sublime • Longinus


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