Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes is the wife AND mother of King Oedipus. Jocasta and Laius were told that there son (Oedipus) would eventually kill his father and wed his mother. This then made Laius take Oedipus to a mountain and tie his feet together so he could not move. Jocasta mentions that she does not really believe in prophecies and she completely ignores the fact that Oedipus could be her son when there is talk of this (The Willingness to Ignore the Truth). Jocasta has multiple children,(not counting Oedipus), with Oedipus. Jocasta constantly reassures Oedipus that he is a great King of Thebes, but when she finds out the horror that she married her son, she commits suicide by hanging herself.
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