![]() ![]() Jocasta or Laius pierced and pinned the infant's ankles together. Jocasta handed the newborn infant over to Laius. ![]() One night, Laius became drunk and fathered Oedipus with Jocasta. Laius received an oracle from Delphi which told him that he must not have a child with his wife, or the child would kill him and marry her in another version, recorded by Aeschylus, Laius is warned that he can only save the city if he dies childless. ![]() She was also sister of Creon and mother-in-law of Haimon.Īfter his abduction and rape of Chrysippus, Laius married Jocasta. She was the wife of first Laius, then of their son Oedipus, and both mother and grandmother of Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene. In Greek mythology, Jocasta ( / dʒ oʊ ˈ k æ s t ə/), also rendered Iocaste ( Ancient Greek: Ἰοκάστη Iokástē ) and also known as Epicaste ( / ˌ ɛ p ɪ ˈ k æ s t iː/ Ἐπικάστη Epikástē ), was a daughter of Menoeceus, a descendant of the Spartoi Echion, and queen consort of Thebes. Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel ![]()
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