How To Use Jocasta In A Sentence
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The protagonist of the tragedy is the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes.
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I heard Jocasta murmur something to Ulysses; he summoned a small serving girl with a clap of his hands and sent her zooming off into the lanterned half-dark of the gardens, presumably in search of him.
Drums of Autumn
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Further, Act I introduces two occasions for incest, not one: the consummated incest of Oedipus and Jocasta, mother-son incest; and the potential, though ultimately unperformed, incest between Creon and Eurydice, uncle-niece incest.
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Queen in 1561 and published in 1565, Gascogne's "Jocasta," played in
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So go; for I will to thy sister, Jocasta, at whose breast I was suckled as a babe when reft of my mother and left a lonely orphan, to give her kindly greeting and then will
The Phoenissae
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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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Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him.
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There was only a couple of hundred votes in it but, interestingly, the sharp-suited Ruperts who had aspired to be "Tony's" right hand man and the poshly-voiced Jocastas with the framed pictures of Alistair Campbell on their desks seem to have other commitments now that being a member of the Labour party means actual work as opposed to merely mincing around wielding mobile phones and trying to look important.
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After Laius learns from an oracle that "he is doomed/To perish by the hand of his own son," he binds tightly together with a pin the feet of the infant Oedipus and orders Jocasta to kill the infant.
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The story of Oedipus begins north of ancient Athens, in the kingdom of Thebes where King Laius and his wife, Jocasta, had a son.
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The protagonist of the tragedy is the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes.
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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.
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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.
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Whereas incest and parricide are the foretold destiny of Oedipus, that which causes his tragedy and Jocasta's destruction, here incest and parricide are by-products of the institution of slavery.
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Alfaro's idea is that Jocasta is the wife of gangland kingpin Laius David Anzuelo, who orders the murder of the infant Oedipus after a seer prophesies the son's murder of the father.
Theater review: 'Oedipus el Rey' at Woolly Mammoth
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I do hope," Jocasta said, "that you'll be remaining in Colyton for a few days yet.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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In this tale, set over 20 years before Episode II when Obi-Wan Kenobi was a 17-year old Padawan, Jocasta serves in her role as Temple archivist, and briefs Jedi before they depart on field missions.
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He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.
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The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
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He married a distant cousin, Jocasta.
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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.
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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
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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.
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