- Alternative names
- Epicaste
- Information
- mother and wife of Oidipous
- Daughter of
- 👤 Menoiceus (Theban I) 👤 Wife of Menoiceus (name unknown)
- Mother of
- 👤 Antigone (Theban) 👤 Eteocles (Theban) 👤 Ismene (d. of Oedipus) 👤 Polyneices 👤 Oedipus
- Wife of
- 👤 Laios 👤 Oedipus
- Has children with
- 👤 Laios 👤 Oedipus
- Dies at
- 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🏛️ the Electran Gates (Thebes)
- Killed by
- 👤 Oedipus
- Has post-mortem existence at
- 🌍 the Underworld
- Related Entities
- 👤 Antigone (Theban) 👤 Apollo 👤 Creon (Theban) 👤 Eteocles (Theban) 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Ismene (d. of Oedipus) 👤 Laios 👤 Polybos (Corinthian/Sicyonian) 👤 Polyneices 👤 Menoiceus (Theban I) 👤 Menoiceus (Theban II) 👤 Odysseus 👤 Sphinx 👤 Oedipus 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Phicion (Boiotia) 🏛️ the Electran Gates (Thebes) 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 👤 Wife of Menoiceus (name unknown)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.7 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.8 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.9 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 417-438 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.271-11.280 📖 Pausanias 9.5.10-9.5.11 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1-31 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 32-54 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 55-85 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 408-440 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 588-622 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 690-747 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 977-1015 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1427-1459 📖 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 742-790 📖 Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 41 📖 Corinna fr. 672 PMG 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 4.376 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1264-1283 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 1480-1581 📖 Ovid, Ibis 261-262 📖 Strabo 16.2.38-16.2.39
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Corinna Euripides, Phoenician Women Strabo Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Ibis
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.271-11.280 📖 Euripides, Phoenician Women 32-54
- Depictions
- 🎨 Sicilian Red-Figure Calyx Krater attributed to the Capodarso Painter (Syracuse 66557; LIMC Antigone 1) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Moralista III 4, 2, Pompeii (LIMC Iokaste 7; PALP r3-i4-p2-space-26)