Fates
group · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Fates · the Fates that bring things to fulfilment · the Moirai
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Birds
The goddesses of destiny, recalled by the chorus as the ones who once joined Zeus and Hera in marriage, invoked as precedent for the present wedding.
'Twas that the Fates formerly united Olympian Hera to the King who governs the gods from the summit of his inaccessible throne in the midst of such festivities.
Clouds
The goddesses of destiny blamed by Amynias for breaking the wheels of his chariot.
O Fates, breaking the wheels of my horses!
Protrepticus
Goddesses of destiny in Greek myth, refuted as not true gods.
For neither are the Erinyes nor the Fates nor Destiny gods, since neither is the state nor glory nor wealth — which painters even show to be blind.
Orations
Goddesses of fate/fulfillment invoked among the deities dishonored by sexual exploitation
neither Zeus the god of birth nor Hera the goddess of marriage, nor the Fates that bring things to fulfilment, nor Artemis of childbirth, nor mother Rhea, nor the Eileithyiae who preside over human birth, nor Aphrodite, named after the natural union and intercourse of the female with the male;