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’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.
[4][6] To prevent that, the queen sold Tisiphone as a slave,[7][8] and as it happened the buyer proved to be none other than Alcmaeon himself, who did not recognise his daughter and kept her as a maid.
[10] The sole surviving coherent source of Tisiphone’s tale is Apollodorus, who attributes this particular version to an old tragedy by Athenian playwright Euripides, no doubt the now lost Alcmaeon in Corinth, which was first produced posthumously around 405 BC and related the events of Alcmaeon's adventures in Corinth.
[11] From the surviving fragments we can extrapolate that the play opened with a narration of the events by Apollo, followed by Alcmaeon's arrival in Corinth accompanied by Tisiphone, where the recognition between father and daughter took place and the girl's real identity was revealed to him, probably by the queen herself.