Euryganeia Jocasta and Oedipus, but agreed that the more famous foursome were the children of Euryganeia. There was a painting of her at Plataea in which she was depicted as mournful because of the strife between her children. Following Euryganeia's death, Oedipus married Astymedusa, who plotted against her stepsons. Euryganeia In Greek mythology, Euryganeia (, "Eurygáneia") is occasionally named as Oedipus' second wife and the mother of his children, Polynices, Eteocles, Ismene and Antigone. She was either a daughter of Hyperphas or Jocasta's sister. According to Pausanias, the statement at "Odyssey" 11.274—that the gods "soon" made the incestuous marriage between Oedipus
Greek mythology in western art and literature O'Neill in America, and T. S. Eliot in England, and by great novelists such as the Irish James Joyce and the French André Gide. Richard Strauss, Jacques Offenbach and many others have set Greek mythological themes to music. Greek mythology in western art and literature With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets and artists, and remained a fundamental influence on the diffusion and perception of Greek mythology through subsequent centuries. From the early years of the Renaissance, artists portrayed subjects from Greek mythology alongside more