jocasta hangs herself, and Oedipus in his despair puts out his eyes.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
The Thebais consists of twelve books, and the subject of it is the Theban war, which happened 1236 years before the Christian era, in consequence of a dispute between Eteocles and Polynices, the sons of Oedipus and jocasta.
"Titus Flavius Domitianus (Domitian) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 12."
C. Suetonius Tranquillus
The incest of jocasta is the subject of supreme tragic art.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
