Epicaste
(
Ἐπικάστη), a daughter of Menoeceus, and wife of Laius, by whom she became the mother of Oedipus, whom she afterwards unwittingly married.
She is more commonly called Jocaste. (
Hom. Od. 11.271;
Apollod. 3.5.7, &c.; see OEDIPUS.) Respecting Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, see AGENOR, No. 4; a third Epicaste is mentioned by Apollodorus. (2.7.8.)
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