Tisiphone (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, "Avenger of murder"), also Tilphousia, is one of the three Erinyes or Furies — with sisters Alecto and Megaera — who dwell in the underworld and rise to punish murder, especially kin-killing. Virgil makes her guardian of Tartarus' gates in a blood-wet dress; Ovid sends her to madden Athamas and Ino; Statius' Thebaid has her spur the Theban war. Distinct from Tisiphone daughter of Alcmaeon (tisiphone-alcmaeon).
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I.Among the Erinyes
Classical myth fixes three named Furies: Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. Apollodorus and Hyginus count them among the children born when Uranus' blood fell on Earth (or, in Hyginus' preface, of Aether and Terra). They punish parricide, fratricide, and homicide, ascending from the underworld to hound the guilty. The collective office lives on the node erinyes; this file is the individual named sister.
II.In poetry
In Virgil's Aeneid she guards Tartarus clothed in a blood-wet dress and later rages pale among the battle lines. Ovid's Metamorphoses sends her, at Juno's command, to drive Athamas and Ino mad with serpent-breath and a poison mixed from Cerberus' froth and Echidna's venom. Statius' Thebaid gives her a major role: lounging by the Cocytus, then goading the war of Polynices and Eteocles and driving Tydeus to cannibalism.
Homonym care: not tisiphone-alcmaeon, the daughter Alcmaeon begot on Manto and who was sold as a slave at Corinth — a mortal namesake, not the Erinys.