Epicaste

Epicaste (/ˌɛpɪˈkæsti/; Greek: Ἐπικάστη Epikaste) or Epicasta (/ˌɛpɪˈkæstə/) is a name attributed to four women in Greek mythology.

• Epicaste, daughter of Augeas. She bore Heracles a son, Thestalus.^[1]
• Epicaste, daughter of Calydon and Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon. She married Agenor son of Pleuron (her first cousin) and had children: Porthaon, Demonice, and Thestius.^[2]
• Epicaste is another name for Jocasta, used by Homer.^[3][4]
• Epicaste, daughter of Nestor and mother of Homer himself by Telemachus, son of Odysseus.
• Epicaste, wife of Clymenus, son of Teleus or Argos, and mother of Harpalyce, Idas, and Therager.^[5]

References

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8.
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.7.
3. Homer, Odyssey, 11. 310
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 5. 7
5. Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Stories, 13 (Theoi Project - Parthenius)