Jocasta

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(jōkăs´tə): see Oedipus.

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Oedipus - in Greek legend, son of Laius, king of Thebes, and his wife, Jocasta. Laius had been warned by an oracle that he was fated to be killed by his own son; he therefore abandoned Oedipus on a mountainsid...