Epicaste

Epicaste (Greek: Ἐπικάστη) 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, used by Homer.^[3]^[4]

Epicaste, wife of Clymenus, son of Teleus or Argos, and mother of Harpalyce, Idas, and Therager.^[5]

References

^ Apollodorus, The Library, 2.7.8.
^ Apollodorus, The Library, 1.7.7.
^ Homer, Iliad, 11. 271
^ Apollodorus, The Library, 3. 5. 7
^ Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Stories, 13 (Theoi Project - Parthenius)