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

The Erinyes

A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron, and caused his death by snakebite, specifically, one of the snakes from her head.

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.

References in modern culture

• 466 Tisiphone is an asteroid.
• Tisiphone abeona is a species of Australian butterfly.
• Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval sloop called Tisiphone: ^*.

See also

• Family tree of the Greek gods

Greek mythology

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