Crossword-Solution: EPICASTE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EPICASTE | anagram | SPECIATE, SPICETEA |
We have 1 clue for the answer “EPICASTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| OEDIPUS, mother of | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPICASTE (5)
The beauteous Epicaste[44] saw I then, Mother of Oedipus, who guilt incurr'd Prodigious, wedded, unintentional, To her own son; his father first he slew, Then wedded her, which soon the Gods divulged.
The two chief women of the group are Epicaste and Chloris, the one supremely tragic in her motherhood, the other reasonably happy.
Epicaste is mother of OEdipus, who marries her after slaying his own father who is her husband, both deeds being done in ignorance; thus the closest domestic ties are whelmed into guilt and tragedy, whereof Sophocles has made a world-famous use, in his two dramas on the subject of OEdipus.
Thus the two women, Epicaste and Chloris, have opposite destinies, and show the sharp contrasts of life.
Further evidence is offered by the account of the hanging of Epicaste upon a ceiling beam, which must have been exposed from all sides.