Epicaste


 
 

In Greek mythology, Epicaste was the wife and daughter of Augeas. The name also referred to Jocasta occasionally.

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Greek mythology: Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, some...

Augeas: In Greek mythology, Augeas (or Augeias), whose name means "bright", was King of Elis and husband of Epicaste. He is best known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned until the great hero Herakles came along....

Jocasta: In Greek mythology, Jocasta, also Iocaste or Epikast?, was a daughter of Menocenes. She was the wife of Laius and, by him, mother (and wife) of Oedipus, and mother (by Oedipus) of Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene....

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