Menoeceus
[ muh-nee-see-uhs, -syoos ]
nounClassical Mythology.
a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
the son of Creon of Thebes, who took his own life because of the prophecy that the Seven against Thebes would fail only if a descendant of the Sparti sacrificed himself.
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How to use Menoeceus in a sentence
Pretending to obey Menoeceus threw himself from the city walls.
Authors of Greece | T. W. Lumb
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