Ate
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Atê the idea
Atê · derangement
in the texts
Iliad
Personified goddess of ruin and blind folly, blamed for Agamemnon's seizure of Briseis and for Achilles' anger.
Zeus, and Fate [ Moira], and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me with derangement [ atê] when we were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the prize that had been awarded to him.
Then he whirled her round with a twist of his hand, and flung her down from heaven so that she fell on to the fields of mortal men;
Then Achilles also rose and said to the Argives, "Father Zeus, truly you give atê to men and bane them.
Symposium
Personification of ruinous folly described by Homer as delicate-footed, cited by Agathon as an analogy for Love's delicacy.
he requires a poet such as Homer to set forth his delicacy divine.