Jocasta is Oedipus' mother and wife and queen of Thebes.
Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismene were the children of Oedipus and Jocasta.
Antigone's mother was Jocasta, wife of Oedipus, who was Antigone's father. The play Oedipus Rex, in which Antigone is a non-speaking character, describes the relationship of Jocasta and Oedipus - unbeknownst to them, Jocasta was actually Oedipus' mother in addition to his wife. When they learn this, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself.
Creon is Jocasta's brother.
Jocasta takes Oedipus' side in the argument. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who is betrothed to Creon's son.
Oedipus mother's name was Jocasta
Jocasta is Oedipus' mother and wife and queen of Thebes.
No, Theban King Oedipus isn't Theban Queen Jocasta's brother. Instead, Theban King Creon is Jocasta's brother. Oedipus is Jocasta's son and husband.
Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismene were the children of Oedipus and Jocasta.
Antigone's mother was Jocasta, wife of Oedipus, who was Antigone's father. The play Oedipus Rex, in which Antigone is a non-speaking character, describes the relationship of Jocasta and Oedipus - unbeknownst to them, Jocasta was actually Oedipus' mother in addition to his wife. When they learn this, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself.
Antigone's mother was Jocasta, wife of Oedipus, who was Antigone's father. The play Oedipus Rex, in which Antigone is a non-speaking character, describes the relationship of Jocasta and Oedipus - unbeknownst to them, Jocasta was actually Oedipus' mother in addition to his wife. When they learn this, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself.
Creon is Jocasta's brother.
Jocasta takes Oedipus' side in the argument. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who is betrothed to Creon's son.
That they tragically love second husbands but that Gertrude's husband is a villain and Jocasta's is not are the ways in which Gertrude in "Hamlet" and Jocasta in "Oedipus Rex" are respectively similar and different.Specifically, Danish Queen Gertrude falls in love with Claudius, the brother and killer of her first husband. Theban Queen Jocasta falls in love with Oedipus, the son and killer of her first husband. But Claudius kills his brother knowingly and treacherously, in order to become king. In contrast, Oedipus murders his father unknowingly, in an act of self-defense.
Jocasta is the name of Oedipus' wife in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Oedipus is married to the Theban Queen. His wife's name is Jocasta. She is his first and only wife, but Oedipus is Jocasta's second husband.
Oedipus walks in to see Jocasta has hung herself and Oedipus stabs his eye out with Jocastas broach
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