How To Use Jocasta In A Sentence
- I am [3] the daughter of Menœceus, and Creon my brother was born of the same mother; me they call Jocasta (for this name [4] my father gave me), and The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
- Freud never discussed the fact that it is Jocasta's attempt to murder her son that leads to his incestuous union with her. All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi – review
- If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches. G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
- The interest is the interplay between the three main characters, Oedipus himself, Jocasta and her brother Cleon, as the story is unfolded to them by a succession of walk-ons (Tiresias, the messenger, the shepherd, etc) - although the plot covers the whole of Oedipus 'life, the setting of the play respects the unities and takes place over a few hours or possibly days. Lightsecond
- He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.
- The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
- He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.
- In this tale, set over 20 years before Episode II when Obi-Wan Kenobi was a 17-year old Padawan, Jocasta serves in her role as Temple archivist, and briefs Jedi before they depart on field missions.
- I do hope," Jocasta said, "that you'll be remaining in Colyton for a few days yet. ALL ABOUT LOVE
- Alfaro's idea is that Jocasta is the wife of gangland kingpin Laius David Anzuelo, who orders the murder of the infant Oedipus after a seer prophesies the son's murder of the father. Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth
