Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.

Tisiphone was the daughter of Alcmaeon and Manto.

* Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval sloop called Tisiphone.

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.

Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents revenge, stands guard sleepless at the top of this turret lashing a whip.

* 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 ).

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 is incorrectly mentioned as one of the Gorgons in the British horror movie The Gorgon from 1964.

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.

* 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.

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 ".

* Magaera, Tisiphone and Alecto will be the main antagonists in the upcoming video game God of War: Ascension.

Tisiphone ( Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, " avenging murder ") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology.

In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, Tisiphone is recognized as the furious and cruel guardian of the gates of Tartarus.

Alcmaeon accidentally left his children, Tisiphone and Amphilochus, with Creon.

Creon's wife sold Tisiphone into slavery, envious of her beauty.

* Fury is a DC Comics character empowered by 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.

: dic qua Tisiphone, quibus exagitere colubris.

During an intense battle, the Fledermaus is slain by Fury, while she is affected by the god Tisiphone.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

There was no one but me.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That was another one of those traps.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

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