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.
Then Achilles also rose and said to the Argives, "Father Zeus, truly you give atê to men and bane them.
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;
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.
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.