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Jocaste

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The wife of Laius, king of Thebes, and mother of Oedipus; she afterwards married him not knowing that he was her son, and on discovery of the crime put an end to herself, though not till after she had become the mother of Etéocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismenë.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Jocaste'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​j/jocaste.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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