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Jocasta

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Jo·cas·ta  (j-kst)
n. Greek Mythology
A queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son, Oedipus.
Jocasta [dʒəʊˈkæstə]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius, who married Oedipus without either of them knowing he was her son
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Noun1.Jocasta - (Greek mythology) queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks


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To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother.
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