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Tisiphone (/ t ɪ ˈ s ɪ f ə n i / 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.
According to Hesiod, Alecto was the daughter of Gaea fertilized by the 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 from their eyes, while their wings were those of bats. [1]
The Erinyes (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n i. iː z / ih-RI-nee-eez; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, sing.: Ἐρινύς Erinys), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") [a] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
This is the first film that launched an epic saga that spans 11 installments to date. "The Fast and the Furious" introduces viewers to a group of rival Los Angeles street racing teams.
The Fast and the Furious (2001). The first film stars Diesel as a heist man and Walker as an undercover cop. Things get wild when Diesel’s character Dom asks Paul’s character Brian to join his ...
The Furies (Roberts novel), a 1966 science fiction novel by Keith Roberts; The Furies (Jakes novel), a 1976 historical novel by John Jakes; The Furies, a 2009 historical novel by Bill Napier; The Furies, a 2023 novel by Mandy Beaumont; The Furies, a newspaper of The Furies Collective, a Washington DC–based lesbian organization
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) dug into the eight Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), claiming the lawmakers “unleashed furies” in the GOP ...