Character · Individual

Epicaste

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name: Epicaste
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

house of Hades1 observation

·Remembered

Epicaste went to the house of Hades after hanging herself.

See evidence text

“‘I also saw fair Epicaste mother of king Oedipodes whose awful lot it was to marry her own son without suspecting it. He married her after having killed his father, but the gods proclaimed the whole story to the world; whereon he remained king of Thebes, in great grief for the spite the gods had borne him; but Epicaste went to the house of the mighty jailor Hades, having hanged herself for grief, and the avenging spirits haunted him as for an outraged mother—to his ruing bitterly thereafter. ”

Claims

·Remembered

Fair Epicaste unknowingly marries her son Oedipodes and hangs herself in grief when the gods expose the story.

See evidence text

“fair Epicaste mother of king Oedipodes whose awful lot it was to marry her own son without suspecting it. He married her after having killed his father, but the gods proclaimed the whole story to the world; whereon he remained king of Thebes, in great grief for the spite the gods had borne him; but Epicaste went to the house of the mighty jailor Hades, having hanged herself for grief”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Remembered

“fair Epicaste”