Epicaste

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Epicaste (or Epicasta) is a name attributed to four women in Greek mythology.

• Epicaste, daughter of Augeas. She bore Heracles a son, Thestalus.^[1]

• Epicaste, daughter of Calydon and Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon. She married Agenor son of Pleuron (her first cousin) and had children: Porthaon, Demonice, and Thestius.^[2]

• Epicaste is another name for Jocasta.

• Epicaste, wife of Clymenus, son of Teleus or Argos, and mother of Harpalyce, Idas, and Therager.^[3]

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