Epicaste

A daughter of Menoeceus. She was the wife of Laius and by him the mother of Oedipus, whom she later unwittingly married. She is more commonly known as Iocaste.

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References

Sources

  • Homer. Odyssey xi, 271.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 5.7.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.