noun
- Classical Mythology. a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
- a female given name.
noun
- Greek myth a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius, who married Oedipus without either of them knowing he was her son