Oedipus (Euripides) blinded before it was known that Laius was his father. Also, while in Sophocles' play Jocasta kills herself, remaining fragments of Euripides' play depict Jocasta as having survived and accompanied Oedipus into exile. A number of fragments of "Oedipus" and of ancient writings about "Oedipus" are extant. In one fragment, John Malalas writes that Euripides wrote a drama about Oedipus, Jocasta and the Sphinx. Another fragment (539a) gives the beginning of a hypothesis of the play, which states that Laius fathered a child despite the fact that the god Apollo forbade him from doing so. Three fragments (540, 540a, 540b)
Jocasta Innes couple first met in 1981. Their graves are side by side in the churchyard of All Saints, Lullington in Somerset. Jocasta was survived by her partner who died in 2014, and her four children, Daisy Goodwin, Jason Goodwin, Tabitha and Chloe Potts, and nine grandchildren. Jocasta Innes Jocasta Innes (21 May 1934 – 20 April 2013) was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman. Innes was born in Nanjing, China, the eldest of three daughters born to a Shell Oil executive and an Irish-Argentinian teacher who ran a school for the children of other British-born residents. By the age of twelve