Jocasta
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
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a female given name.
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British actress Manville won the first Tony of her career for her performance as Jocasta in the Greek tragedy Oedipus.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
As his wife, Jocasta, Ms. Manville was arguably even more devastating, at first trying desperately to keep from her beloved husband what she knows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Oedipus is played by a hearing actor, and Jocasta by a deaf actor, so the characters’ inherent conflict is heightened in a way that remains true to Deaf culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
What is new this season is the addition of Maria Doyle Kennedy, the famous Irish folk musician and actress from Downton Abbey and Orphan Black who will play Jamie’s aunt, Jocasta.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2018
In Jocasta handed the baby to the servant, the phrase the servant is an oblique object, that is, the object of a preposition.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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