Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Tisiphone (Erinyes).
The gallery
The Fury Tisiphone at the Palace of Athamas
Unknown (after Ovidian tradition), 18th century
LACMA print: Tisiphone invades Athamas' palace — Ovid's named Fury bringing madness, serpents, and the blood-guilt that drives the king to kill.
Orestes Pursued by the Furies
Carl Rahl, 1852
Rahl's canvas: the Erinyes close on Orestes — Tisiphone among the pursuing sisters as nineteenth-century academic terror.
Orestes Pursued by the Furies
John Singer Sargent, 1921
Sargent's late mural vision: torches and snaky hair drive Orestes — the Furies (Tisiphone among them) as modern American grand-manner nightmare.
Erinyes Drive Alcmaeon from the Corpse of Eriphyle
Henry Fuseli, c. 1821
Fuseli's Zürich painting: the Erinyes hound a matricide from his mother's corpse — Romantic sublime for Tisiphone's sisterhood of blood-vengeance.
In play
Hades
Supergiant Games
Supergiant's underworld roguelike features Tisiphone among the Fury sisters — Megaera's sibling as a boss of blood and broken speech.
Aeneid
Virgil
Tisiphone guards Tartarus in Book VI — the Fury named at the gate of the damned.
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Book IV — Juno sends Tisiphone to drive Athamas mad: the Fury as agent of divine revenge.
Tisiphone
One of the three Erinyes — avenger of murder, Virgil's jailer of Tartarus, Ovid's bringer of Athamas' madness.