 In Book IV of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", she is described as a denizen of Dis who wears a dripping red robe and who has a serpent coiled around her waist.At the behest of Juno, Tisiphone drives Athamas and Ino mad with the breath of a serpent extracted from her hair and a poison made from froth from the mouth of Cerberus and Echidna's venom.Tisiphone has a prominent role in Statius' "Thebaid", where she spurs on the war between Polynices and Eteocles at the behest of their father, Oedipus.