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, Tisiphone (

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: Τισιφόνη) may refer to various characters: *

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. She was the sister of Amphilochus. Tisiphone was given by her father to King Creon of

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to be brought up but was instead sold as a slave by the latter's wife, who feared her beauty; coincidentally she was bought by her father, not knowing that she was his daughter, and kept by him as a maid. *

, the

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daughter of

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and wife of Meneptolemus. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.406

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References

* Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''

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'' translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913
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* Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy''. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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