Tisiphone 78491 218135986 2008-06-09T09:16:30Z Chronicler 6154330 '''Tisiphone''' ([[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]]: Τισιφόνη, "avenging murder") is the name of two figures in [[Greek mythology]]. ==The Erinyes== '''Tisiphone''' was one of the [[Erinyes]] or Furies, and sister of [[Alecto]] and [[Megaera]]. She was the one who punished crimes of murder: [[parricide]], [[fratricide]] and [[homicide]]. A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with [[Cithaeron]], and caused his death by snakebite, specifically, by one of the snakes from her head. In Book VI of [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', Tisiphone is recognized as the furious and cruel guardian of the gates of [[Tartarus]]. ==Daughter of Alcmaeon== '''Tisiphone''' was the daughter of [[Alcmaeon (mythology)|Alcmaeon]] and [[Manto (Greek mythology)|Manto]]. Alcmaeon accidentally left his children, Tisiphone and [[Amphilochus]], with [[Creon]]. Creon's wife sold Tisiphone into slavery, envious of her beauty. She didn't realize that Tisiphone's purchaser was acting on behalf of her father. When Alcmaeon returned, he rescued his daughter and recovered his son. ==References in modern culture== * [[466 Tisiphone]] is an asteroid. * [http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/action/butterfly/species/119.html Tisiphone abeona] is a species of Australian [[butterfly]]. * Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval [[sloop]] called ''Tisiphone'': [http://www.dukesofbuckingham.org/people/contemporaries/thomas_masterman_hardy.htm]. * [[Fury (DC Comics)|Fury]] is a fictional character empowered by Tisiphone. * ''[[Path of the Fury]]'' is a book by [[David Weber]] * The [[Game Boy Advance]] game, [[Golden Sun: The Lost Age]] features a weapon named 'Tisiphone Edge'. * The character Tisiphone was personified in the stage play "Rough Magic", written by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa. Portrayed at the Hangar Theatre, [[Ithaca, New York]], 2005, by John Misselwitz. ==See also== *[[Family tree of the Greek gods]] [[Category:Greek mythology]] [[Category:Greek goddesses]] [[Category:Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid]] [[br:Tisifone]] [[bg:Тисифона]] [[ca:Tisífone]] [[cs:Tísifoné]] [[de:Tisiphone]] [[es:Tisífone]] [[eo:Tizifono]] [[fr:Tisiphone]] [[it:Tisifone]] [[nl:Tisiphone]] [[pl:Tyzyfone]] [[pt:Tisífone]] [[ru:Тисифона (мифология)]] [[fi:Teisifone]]