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Tisiphone ( Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, " avenging murder ") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology.
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* 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 ).
In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, Tisiphone is recognized as the furious and cruel guardian of the gates of Tartarus.
* 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.
During an intense battle, the Fledermaus is slain by Fury, while she is affected by the god Tisiphone.
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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.
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* 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.
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Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents revenge, stands guard sleepless at the top of this turret lashing a whip.
Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.
* Magaera, Tisiphone and Alecto will be the main antagonists in the upcoming video game God of War: Ascension.
Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera.
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.
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.
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.
* In the video game God of War III, the player must pass the Gates of Tisiphone on his way to Tartarus.
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.
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.
Ancient and Greek
It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
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Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.
The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.
Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".
The order Anura ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and oura, tail ) comprises the frogs and toads.
The order Gymnophiona ( from the Greek, gymnos and ophis meaning " naked serpent ") or Apoda ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and poda, legs ) comprise the caecilians.
The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.
The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.
This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.
Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.
The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.
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Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.
Over several centuries, numerous Ancient Greek city states were established on the coasts of Anatolia.
The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.
In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced when short and when long.
In the Attic-Ionic dialect of Ancient Greek, long alpha fronted to ( eta ).
Privative a is the Ancient Greek prefix ἀ-or ἀν-a -, an -, added to words to negate them.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
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