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  Tisiphone
The first meaning of the name Tisiphone is one of the Erinyes.
The second meaning of the name Tisiphone is the daughter of the Alcmaeon (one of the Epigoni) and his wife Manto, she was the sister of Amphilochus.
Jealous of Tisiphone's beauty Creon's wife sold her into slavery, with none of the involved parties realizing at first that the buyer was Tisiphone's father.
www.pantheon.org /articles/t/tisiphone.html   (131 words)

  
 Tisiphone
Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes, and sister of Alecto and Megaera.
A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron, and caused his death by snakebite, specifically, one of the snakes from her head.
Tisiphone was the daughter of Alcmaeon and Manto.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DTisiphone%26type%3Den   (174 words)

  
  Two Cats
Tisiphone looks like she is wearing a tuxedo and has a face like a checkerboard.
Tisiphone likes to climb up on the trunk (where she is not supposed to go) and jump to the reference books (where she is really not supposed to go).
Tisiphone is more of a scaredy cat and usually keeps watch, even while we pose like bookends on top of the couch.
www.lucinda.net /cats/index.html   (530 words)

  
  Tisiphone
Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes, and sister of Alecto and Megaera.
A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron, and caused his death by snakebite, specifically, one of the snakes from her head.
Tisiphone was the daughter of Alcmaeon and Manto.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Tisiphone   (174 words)

  
 ERINYES : Greek goddesses of retribution, the Furies ; mythology ; pictures : ERINNYES
On the stage, however, and in works of art, their fearful appearrance was greatly softened down, for they were represented as maidens of a grave and solemn mien, in the richly adorned attire of huntresses, with a band of serpents around their heads, and serpents or torches in their hands.
Tisiphone, dishevelled as she was, shook her white hair and tossed aside the snakes that masked her face.
Tisiphone brought with her poisons too of magic power: lip-froth of Cerberus, the Echidna’s venom, wild deliriums, blindnesses of the brain, and crime and tears, and maddened lust for murder; all ground up, mixed with fresh blood, boiled in a pan of bronze, and stirred with a green hemlock stick.
www.theoi.com /Khthonios/Erinyes.html   (4425 words)

  
 Tisiphone - Definition, explanation
She caused his death by snakebite, specifically, one of the snakes from her head.
Alcmaeon accidentally left his children, Tisiphone and Amphilochus, with Creon.
She didn't realize that Tisiphone's purchaser was acting on behalf of her father.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/ti/tisiphone.php   (97 words)

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