Tisiphone (daughter of Alcmaeon)

In Greek mythology, Tisiphone (/tɪˈsɪfəni/ tiss-IF-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, romanized: Tisiphónē, lit. 'avenger of bloodshed') is the daughter of Alcmaeon, Argive hero and one of the Epigoni, and Manto, the daughter of Tiresias. As an infant Tisiphone was given to the care of the royal couple of Corinth, but as she grew up the queen sold her as slave, jealous of her great beauty. Tisiphone was eventually reunited with her birth family.

Tisiphone’s story is mostly known from second-century sources, but it is known she originally appeared in Alcmaeon in Corinth, a lost drama of the fifth century BC, thanks to surviving fragments.

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