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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son, Oedipus.
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- proper noun Greek mythology The
mother andwife ofOedipus . - proper noun rare A female
given name .
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- noun (Greek mythology) queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus
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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. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Queen in 1561 and published in 1565, Gascogne's "Jocasta," played in
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876
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Meanwhile, other tracks such as "Jocasta," a song that anchors Noah's roots in punk and rock, have entirely different sounds.
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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 G. Roger Denson 2011
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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 G. Roger Denson 2011
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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 2011
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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 nwhyte 2009
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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 G. Roger Denson 2011
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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 G. Roger Denson 2011
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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 G. Roger Denson 2011
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