Global Information Lookup Global Information

Tisiphone information


Antonio Tempesta, The Fury Tisiphone at the Palace of Athamas

Tisiphone (/tɪˈsɪfəni/ tiss-IF-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, romanized: Tisiphónē), or Tilphousia, was one of the three Erinyes or Furies. Her sisters were Alecto and Megaera.[1] She and her sisters punished crimes of murder: parricide, fratricide and homicide.

  1. ^ "Mythological Index". The Ovid Collection. University of Virginia Library.

and 20 Related for: Tisiphone information

Request time (Page generated in 0.5482 seconds.)

Tisiphone

Last Update:

Tisiphone (/tɪˈsɪfəni/ tiss-IF-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, romanized: Tisiphónē), or Tilphousia, was one of the three Erinyes or Furies. Her sisters...

Word Count : 789

Tisiphone abeona

Last Update:

Tisiphone abeona, the swordgrass brown, is a nymphalid butterfly. It is endemic to Australia. The wings of the adult are brown and have a wingspan of...

Word Count : 145

Eastern copperhead

Last Update:

Latreille, 1801 Scytale Cupreus Rafinesque, 1818 Scytale cupreus — Say, 1819 Tisiphone cuprea — Fitzinger, 1826 [Cenchris] marmorata F. Boie, 1827 Acontias atrofuscus...

Word Count : 4937

Agkistrodon piscivorus

Last Update:

Agkistrodon piscivorus is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. It is one of the world's few semiaquatic...

Word Count : 7299

Calloselasma

Last Update:

Synonyms Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799 Trigonocephalus Kuhl, 1822 Tisiphone Fitzinger, 1843 Leiolepis A.M.C. Duméril, 1853 Ancistrodon Baird, 1854...

Word Count : 1221

Megaera

Last Update:

"According to the most received opinions, they were three in number, Tisiphone, "Megaera ... daughter of Nyx and Acheron", and Alecto". In other versions...

Word Count : 319

Tisiphone of Troy

Last Update:

In Greek mythology, Tisiphone (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη) was the Trojan daughter of Antimachus and sister of Hippolochus, Pisander, and Hippomachus. She...

Word Count : 1013

Erinyes

Last Update:

three: Alecto or Alekto ("endless anger"), Megaera ("jealous rage"), and Tisiphone or Tilphousia ("vengeful destruction"), all of whom appear in the Aeneid...

Word Count : 2905

Pseudocatharylla tisiphone

Last Update:

Pseudocatharylla tisiphone is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Graziano Bassi in 1999. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the...

Word Count : 64

Sword grass

Last Update:

exsoleta (sword-grass) Xylena vetusta (red sword-grass) Tisiphone abeona (sword-grass brown) Tisiphone helena (northern sword-grass brown) This disambiguation...

Word Count : 112

Tisiphone helena

Last Update:

Tisiphone helena, the Helena brown or northern sword-grass brown, is a nymphalid butterfly. It is endemic to tropical northern Queensland. The wingspan...

Word Count : 53

466 Tisiphone

Last Update:

Tisiphone (minor planet designation: 466 Tisiphone) is an asteroid which orbits among the Cybele family of asteroids. It was discovered by Max Wolf and...

Word Count : 680

Heteronympha cordace

Last Update:

Heteronympha Species: H. cordace Binomial name Heteronympha cordace (Geyer, 1832) Synonyms Tisiphone cordace Geyer, 1832 Heteronympha wilsoni Burns, 1948...

Word Count : 520

Hippotion celerio

Last Update:

celerio (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Sphinx celerio Linnaeus, 1758 Sphinx tisiphone Linnaeus, 1758 Phalaena inquilinus Harris, 1780 Elpenor phoenix Oken,...

Word Count : 563

Alecto

Last Update:

blood spilled from Uranus when Cronus castrated him. She is the sister of Tisiphone and Megaera. These three Furies had snakes for hair and blood dripped...

Word Count : 662

Athamas

Last Update:

Tisiphone maddens Athamas & Ino (17th century)...

Word Count : 904

Penthus

Last Update:

that he likes to also torment the individuals who mourn. He accompanied Tisiphone when Hera sent her to madden Ino and Athamas. "Penthus". Encyclopedia...

Word Count : 57

Manataria hercyna

Last Update:

(Hübner, [1821]) Synonyms Tisiphone hercyna Hübner, [1821] Morpho anosia Godart, [1824] Tisiphone maculata Hopffer, 1874 Tisiphone hercyna var. fasciata Krüger...

Word Count : 84

Geitoneura acantha

Last Update:

 acantha Binomial name Geitoneura acantha (Donovan, 1805) Synonyms Papilio acantha Donovan, 1805 Tisiphone acanthe Hübner, 1823 Lasiommata ocrea Guest, 1882...

Word Count : 82

Erebus

Last Update:

Lampads Macaria Melinoë Persephone Zagreus Erinyes (Furies) Alecto Megaera Tisiphone Earthborn Cyclopes Gigantes Hecatonchires Kouretes Meliae Telchines Typhon...

Word Count : 2421

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net