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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOCASTA  , or IocASTA ('Ioe6,ar l; in

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Homer, 'Eir6Kavrr1), in
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Greek
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legend, wife of Lalus,
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mother (afterwards wife) of
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Oedipus (q.v.), daughter of Menoeceus,
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sister (or daughter) of
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Creon . According to Homer (Od. xi . 271) and
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Sophocles (Oed .
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Tyr . 1241), on learning that Oedipus was her son she immediately hanged herself; but in
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Euripides (Phoenissae, 1455) she stabs herself over the bodies of her sons
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Eteocles and Polynices, who had slain each other in single combat before the walls of
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Thebes .

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