Jocasta punishment for his patricide and incest. Hearing this news, Jocasta hanged herself. But in the version told by Euripides, Jocasta endured the burden of disgrace and continued to live in Thebes, only committing suicide after her sons killed one another in a fight for the crown (see Seven Against Thebes). In both traditions, Oedipus gouges out his eyes; Sophocles has Oedipus go into exile with his daughter Antigone, but Euripides and Statius have him residing within Thebes' walls during the war between Eteocles and Polynices. Jocasta In Greek mythology, Jocasta (), also known as Iocaste ( ) or Epicaste (;
Asia (mythology) whom he calls "wife" of Prometheus rather than "mother" of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition. Both Acusilaus and Aeschylus in his "Prometheus Bound" call Prometheus' wife Hesione. Herodotus also relates a Lydian tradition "that Asia was not named after Prometheus' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name". Asia (mythology) In Greek mythology, Asia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσία) was a one of the Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. According to Apollodorus, she was the