Meaning Of The Word Jocasta
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Jocasta Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Jocasta?
Jocasta in American English
the queen who unwittingly marries her own son, Oedipus, and kills herself when she finds out noun: a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer Jocasta in British English noun: a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius, who married Oedipus without either of them knowing he was her son |
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