Jocasta

, a daughter of Menœceus, who married Laius king of Thebes, by whom she had Œdip us. She afterwards married her son Œdip us, without knowing who he was, and had by him Eteocles, Polynices, . See: Laius , Œdip us . When she discovered that she had married her own son, and had been guilty of incest, she hanged herself in despair. She is called Epicasta by some mythologists. Statius , Thebiad , bk. 8 , li. 42 .— Seneca & Sophocles , Œdip us .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .— Hyginus , fable 66, . — Homer , Ody ey , bk. 11 .