Tisiphone (daughter of Alkmaion)

Tisiphone ( Greek  Τισιφόνη ) or Teisiphone (Greek Τεισιφόνη ) is the daughter of Alkmaion and Manto in Greek mythology .

When Manto is sent to the Oracle of Delphi , Alkmaion entrusts his children to the Corinthian king Creon . Jealous of Tisiphone's beauty, Creon's wife Merope sells her as a slave. Alkmaion buys it, not knowing that it is his daughter. Only when he returns to Corinth to bring his children back does he recognize them.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Teisiphone 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 209 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Tisiphone in the Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 7, 7.