In Greek mythology, wife of Laius, sister of Creon, and mother and wife of Oedipus, by whom she was mother to Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices, and Ismene. She married Oedipus in ignorance, as his reward for killing the Sphinx. In Sophocles' version of the story, she committed suicide on discovering his true identity, although Euripides and Statius give the death of her sons as the reason for her suicide.