Atropos
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Shield of Heracles
One of the three Fates, described as smaller than her sisters yet superior to them and eldest, depicted on the shield.
Clotho and Lachesis were over them and Atropos less tall than they, a goddess of no great frame, yet superior to the others and the eldest of them.
Theogony
One of the three Fates.
Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good to have.
Republic
One of the three Fates, associated with the future ('the things that are to be'), who renders each soul's destiny irreversible.
and after contact with her the genius again led the soul to the spinning of Atropos to make the web of its destiny irreversible, and then without a backward look it passed beneath the throne of Necessity.
And there were another three who sat round about at equal intervals, each one on her throne, the Fates, daughters of Necessity, clad in white vestments with filleted heads, Lachesis, and Clotho, and Atropos, who sang in unison with the music of the Sirens, Lachesis singing the things that were, Clotho the things that are, and Atropos the things that are to be.