Tisiphone
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Tisiphone (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, "avenging murder") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology.
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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 and 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.
Modern culture
- Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval sloop called Tisiphone.[1]
- Fury is a DC Comics character empowered by Tisiphone.
- Tisiphone appears in Path of the Fury, a 1992 military science fiction book by David Weber (reissued with a prequel backstory in 2006 as In Fury Born). There, thousands of years in the future, a fading Tisiphone merges with a dying former marine commando, Alicia DeVries, and helps wreak vengeance on the space pirates who killed on DeVries' family.
- The Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun: The Lost Age features a weapon named the 'Tisiphone Edge', a light blade that unleashes a special critical attack called 'Vengeance'.
- The character Tisiphone featured in the stage play Rough Magic, written by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa. She was portrayed by John Misselwitz at the Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, New York, 2005.
- In the video game Tomb Raider: Underworld, Megaera and Tisiphone are the names of two sister ships which form part of the game's setting.
- In the video game God of War III, the player must pass the Gates of Tisiphone on his way to Tartarus.
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