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Tisiphone and Alecto
Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto (" unnameable " who appeared in Virgil's Aeneid ), Megaera (" grudging "), and Tisiphone (" vengeful destruction ").
Lamprière's Classical Dictionary states " According to the most received opinions, they were three in number, Tisiphone, Megara and Alecto " and " Megaera ... daughter of Nox and Acheron ".
Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.
Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera.

Tisiphone and be
* Megaera is one of the main characters in the British horror movie The Gorgon from 1964, and is there incorrectly considered to be one of the three Gorgons, the other two being Medusa ( correct ) and Tisiphone ( incorrect ).

Tisiphone and video
* 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.

Tisiphone and game
* The Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Nintendo DS game Golden Sun: Dark Dawn both feature a weapon named the ' Tisiphone Edge ', a light blade that unleashes a special critical attack called ' Vengeance '.

Tisiphone and .
Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents revenge, stands guard sleepless at the top of this turret lashing a whip.
Tisiphone ( Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, " avenging murder ") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology.
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.
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.
* Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval sloop called Tisiphone.
* Fury is a DC Comics character empowered by Tisiphone.
* Tisiphone is incorrectly mentioned as one of the Gorgons in the British horror movie The Gorgon from 1964.
There, thousands of years in the future, a fading Tisiphone merges with a dying, former Imperial Cadre drop commando, Alicia DeVries, and helps wreak vengeance on the space pirates who killed DeVries ' family.
* Tisiphone appears as a major supporting character in the WebMage series of Cyberpunk fantasy novels by Kelly McCullough.
* The character Tisiphone featured in the stage play Rough Magic, written by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa.
These were Amphilochus and Tisiphone.
Creon's wife, however, feared that he might marry Tisiphone because of her great beauty, and sold the girl as a slave.
Even at that, her powers had come to her via the Fury Tisiphone, and the Furies, under the euphemism, " the Kindly Ones " ( a translation of " Eumenides ", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy ), are major characters in the series.
He was promoted commander for his gallant services and appointed to the fireship Tisiphone.
In Rameau's 1733 Hippolyte et Aricie, the hero ( Hippolyte ) was sung by a haute-contre, while the roles of the three Fates and Tisiphone were scored for basses and tenors.
: dic qua Tisiphone, quibus exagitere colubris.
During an intense battle, the Fledermaus is slain by Fury, while she is affected by the god Tisiphone.

Alecto and be
Marius ' son, Alecto, is the Pope's favorite godson and may be " destined to be Pope one day ", according to the Bishop.

Alecto and War
The Alecto was an experimental self propelled gun developed by the British during the Second World War but terminated with the end of the war in Europe.

Alecto and .
In the Táin Bó Cuailnge queen Medb of Connacht launches an invasion of Ulster to steal the bull Donn Cuailnge ; the Morrígan, like Alecto of the Greek Furies, appears to the bull in the form of a crow and warns him to flee.
Trials with Smith's SS Archimedes, the first steam driven screw, led to the famous tug-of-war competition in 1845 between the screw-driven HMS Rattler and the paddle steamer HMS Alecto ; the former pulling the latter backward at 2. 5 knots ( 4. 6 km / h ).
At the same time she was instigated by Alecto, who acted according to the request of Juno.
's activity ceased shortly after Michael Corner was tortured by Death Eater siblings Alecto and Amycus Carrow, for trying to rescue a first-year boy from imprisonment.
With Hogwarts at the mercy of new headmaster Severus Snape and Death Eater siblings Alecto and Amycus Carrow, in Deathly Hallows, Neville reforms Dumbledore's Army with Ginny and Luna, and spends much of his seventh year as the group's interim leader in Harry's absence, helping students who are tormented under the new regime.
( 12 prints on the theme of Paolozzi ’ s interest in the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein ; published as a limited edition of 65 by Editions Alecto, 1965 ); Moonstrips Empire News.
( 100 prints, ( 8 signed ) in an acrylic box ; published as a limited edition of 500 by Editions Alecto, 1967 ); Universal Electronic Vacuum.
The great Florilegium of his work was finally published in 1988 by Alecto Historical Editions in 35 volumes and has since been digitized by the Natural History Museum in London.
*" Flikker Book 7 ", Published by Editions Alecto, 1972.
Like the Harry Hopkins, the Alecto had skid steering, which operated by bowing the tracks through lateral movements of the central road wheels.
Alecto dozer.
* Picture of a trialled Alecto by the Swiss Army in 1948 ( found by www. wheelsandtracks. com )
There were several variations on the Tetrarch design, including the Alecto self-propelled gun and the Light Tank Mk VIII, but none of these were ever used in active service with the British Army.

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