Clotho
deity figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Shield of Heracles
One of the three Fates depicted presiding over the slain in the siege scene on Heracles's 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.
Meditations
One of the three Fates in Greek mythology, who spins the thread of life.
Of your own will give yourself up to Clotho, and let her spin you into whatever events she pleases.
Isthmean
One of the three Fates, entreated directly by the poet to grant the honoree's prayer for a good death and old age.
And I entreat Clotho, throned on high, and her sister Fates, to hear my friend’s prayers for fame.
Olympian
One of the Fates, who took the infant Pelops from the cauldron and gave him his gleaming ivory shoulder.
His glory shines in the settlement of fine men founded by Lydian Pelops, with whom the mighty holder of the earth Poseidon fell in love, when Clotho took him out of the pure cauldron, furnished with a gleaming ivory shoulder.
Republic
One of the three Fates, associated with the present ('the things that are'), who ratifies each soul's chosen destiny at the spindle.
And Clotho with the touch of her right hand helped to turn the outer circumference of the spindle, pausing from time to time.
And she sent with each, as the guardian of his life and the fulfiller of his choice, the genius that he had chosen, and this divinity led the soul first to Clotho, under her hand and her turning of the spindle to ratify the destiny of his lot and choice;