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Jocasta

Header: Jocasta
Also known as: Jocasta; primary name: Jocasta; other name: Epikaste; other name: Iocaste
Details: individual; mythological figure/creature; Greek; Female
Biography: Wife of Laius King of Thebes, and mother of Oedipus (q.v.), whom she subsequently and unwittingly married; she bore him Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene (q.v.). When she discovered the truth, Jocasta decided to take her own life and hung herself.

13 related objects

bowl

Museum number: 1894,0516.1 |
Cultures/periods: x13945 Hellenistic |
Production date: 3rdC BC-1stC BC |
Production place: Made in:Megara |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Thebes (historic - Greece)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1932,0426.5 |
Producer name: After:Jean Guillaume MoittePrint made by:Armand Duval |
Production date: 1801-1805

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1932,0426.4 |
Producer name: After:Jean Guillaume MoittePrint made by:Pierre Baquoy |
Production date: 1801-1805

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.669 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1871,0812.3908 |
Producer name: After:Jean Michel Moreau le jeunePrint made by:Rémi Delvaux |
Production date: 1798-1801

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1932,0426.3 |
Producer name: After:Jean Guillaume MoittePrint made by:Armand Duval |
Production date: 1801-1805

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1932,0426.2 |
Producer name: After:Jean Guillaume MoittePrint made by:Jean Baptiste Michel Dupréel |
Production date: 1801-1805

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.638 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.668 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.637 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.664 |
Producer name: Print made by:Marie François DienAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1816

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,1231.667 |
Producer name: Print made by:Philippus VelynAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 2011,7059.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste Michel DupréelAfter:Jean Guillaume Moitte |
Production date: 1801-1805