The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Tisiphone

Family: infernal deities · Role: Fury · First appears: Fable 44

Life events

  • Tisiphone poisons Athamas and Ino, driving them into madness.(Fable44 · 📍 Palace of Athamas)
    • With: Athamas Ino
    • “But these creep along the breasts of Ino and Athamas, and inspire them with direful intent.”

Fable 44

  • with Juno (interaction) “What she desires is, that the palace of Cadmus shall not stand, and that the Sister {Furies} shall involve Athamas in crime. She mingles together promises, commands, and entreaties, and solicits the Goddesses. When Juno has thus spoken, Tisiphone, with her locks dishevelled as they are, shakes them, and throws back from her face the snakes crawling over it; and thus she says: “There is no need of a long preamble; whatever thou commandest, consider it as done:”
  • with Ino (interaction) “But these creep along the breasts of Ino and Athamas, and inspire them with direful intent.”
  • with Athamas (interaction) “But these creep along the breasts of Ino and Athamas, and inspire them with direful intent.”
  • parent: Night “These were the Furies, fabled to be the daughters of Night and Acheron. They were three in number, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra,”
  • parent: Acheron “These were the Furies, fabled to be the daughters of Night and Acheron. They were three in number, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra,”
  • siblings with Alecto “These were the Furies, fabled to be the daughters of Night and Acheron. They were three in number, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra”
  • siblings with Megæra “These were the Furies, fabled to be the daughters of Night and Acheron. They were three in number, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra”

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