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	Augeas
		In Greek mythology, Augeas ("bright") was King of Elis and husband of Epicaste.
		The stables of Augeas housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned until the great hero Heracles arrived.
		He refused to honor the agreement and was killed by Heracles, who then gave his kingdom to Phyleus, Augeas' son, who had been exiled for supporting Heracles against his father.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Augeus.html (127 words)

	Jocasta
		I also saw fair Epicaste mother of king OEdipodes whose awful lot it was to marry her own son without suspecting it.
		It is made clear, however, that Epicaste is completely unaware that she has married her son, and that she kills herself out of grief for what has transpired.
		Epicaste is similar to Eve, as she her punishment is much more unyielding than Oedipus’, though both were at fault.
	webpage.pace.edu /nreagin/tempmotherhood/spring2002h/Jocasta.html (1782 words)

	Epicaste - BookwormSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		There was hateful Eriphyle, bribed by the gift that drew her lord to his doom; there was hapless Epicaste, wedded to her son, the slayer of his father; there were unhappy Chloris, and unhappy Tyro, mother of Pelias and Neleus by Poseidon, and victim of a feminine revenge.
		Epicaste acyrology Tetraxonida -- Calibanism elderling morganic misinstructed.
		Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphynx, who was persecuting Thebes, and married his biological mother (Epicaste, Euryganeia, Euryanassa, Astymedusa, or Jocasta?), the queen of Thebes and widow of Laius, and had a family with her.
	www.bookwormsearch.com /topics/Epicaste (1298 words)

	Oedipus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In the Odyssey it is said that the gods disclosed the impiety.
		Epicaste (as Jocasta is called in Homer) hanged herself, and Oedipus lived as king in Thebes tormented by the Erinyes of his mother.
		In the tragic poets the tale takes a different form.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Oedipus (692 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 57 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		§ 3.) He was father of Cercyon by Epicaste, who also brought to him a step-son, Trophonius, who was by some believed to be a son of Apollo.
		Ac cording to others, Agamedes was a son of Apollo and Epicaste, or of Zeus and locaste, and father of Trophonius.
		The most common story however is, that he was a son of Erginus, king of Orchomenus, aiid brother of Trophonius.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0066.html (1061 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume II, Number 1
		A III By now the anaphorae of 'and then I saw X and Y' begins to sound like a sighing refrain of lament, especially when we meet the third pair, Epicaste and Chloris.
		Her story begins with a significant variation in the anaphora: 'the mother of Oedipus I saw, beautiful Epicaste' (11.271).
		And Epicaste, carried away by her own pain, fastened a high noose from the steep ceiling and went down to Hades, the strong gatekeeper.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V2N1/houlihan.html (5362 words)

	The Odyssey eBook
		And I saw Megara, daughter of Creon, haughty of heart, whom the strong and tireless son of Amphitryon had to wife.
		’And I saw the mother of Oedipodes, fair Epicaste, who wrought a dread deed unwittingly, being wedded to her own son, and he that had slain his own father wedded her, and straightway the gods made these things known to men.
		Yet he abode in pain in pleasant Thebes, ruling the Cadmaeans, by reason of the deadly counsels of the gods.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/1728/119.html (412 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 29 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		There have been several editions of separate works.
		§ 7, andc.; see oedipus.) Respecting Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, see agenor, No.
		4 ; a third Epicaste is mentioned by Apollodorus.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1137.html (956 words)

	Oedipus the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oedipus is mentioned briefy in the Iliad: "Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funeral, and he beat all the people of Cadmus." (Book 23, ln 756).
		There is also a reference to Oedipus in the Odyssey; when Odysseus goes down to the underworld he meets Epicaste the mother and wife of Oedipus, and the story of Oedipus is then briefly told (11.271-280).
		This play was performed at the Dionysia, the fertility festival of Dionysos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_the_King (1178 words)

	iranian.com: Vida Kashizadeh, Abraham, Rostam & Oedipus complex
		Following a dream during his wife's pregnancy Laius -king of Thebes - was warned by an oracle interpretation that his son would slay him in the future.
		In order to prevent this from happening when his wife Jocasta (in Homer Epicaste) bore a son, he exposed the infant on Mt. Cithaeron pinning his ankles together (hence the name Oedipus, meaning Swell-Foot).
		Found by a shepherd the infant was adopted by King Polybus of Corinth and his wife and was brought up as their son.
	www.iranian.com /Kashizadeh/2006/March/Complex/index.html (10821 words)

	Alternate Plot Possibilities in the Nekyia
		Agamemnon bewails the perfidy of Clytemnestra,which reminds the reader how easily Odysseus could meet such a fate.
		Among the shades of famous women, he sees Epicaste, the wife and mother of Oedipus, who killed the father he did not recognize.
		The presence Eriphyle in the catalogue of famous women suggests a plot twist in which Penelope is bribed to send Odysseus away, or commits some unseemly act against Odysseus motivated by greed.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~otherw/writs/fisher.html (734 words)

	Iokaste * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Oedipus and Iokaste had four children: Ismene, Antigone, Eteokles (Eteocles) and Polynikes (Polynices); the children suffered the curse of their parents and lived lives of sorrow and as outcasts.
		She is also referred to as Epikaste or Epicaste.
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	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Iokaste_1.html (316 words)

	Sophocles' Oedipus the King
		When Sophocles produced the Oedipus he was defeated for first prize by Philocles.
		(Some play that must have been!) The myth of Oedipus was at least as old as Homer: in the Odyssey, Odysseus sees the mother of Oedipus, named Epicaste, and briefly tells the story of Oedipus' murder of his father and marriage to his mother (Od.11.27).
		The story seems to have been a favorite, and early treatments (which included a play by Aeschylus) generated a wide range of various and sometimes conflicting detail from which to choose.
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/summaries/oedipusrex.html (432 words)

	The Odyssey- Chapters 11-12
		Heracles- Had a rugged will and lion heart.
		Epicaste- Mother of Oedipus; she married her son that killed his father.
		Amphion- A Minyan King who once ruled Orchomenos.
	taymourgrahne.tripod.com (1205 words)

	Week 7: Homer and Vergil
		Minos: The King of Crete; his wife Pasiphae gave birth to the monstrous Minotaur
		Oedipus: Without realizing it, Oedipus killed his father and married his mother, Jocasta (also called Epicaste).
		Sirens: Bird-like creatures who seduce sailors with their irresistible song, and then kill them.
	www.mythfolklore.net /2003frametales/weeks/week07/background3.htm (735 words)

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