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    The Atlas·Groups

    The Fates

    group · 8 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    the Fates · Fates · Moirai · deep-thinking Fates · her sister Fates · the Fates that bring things to fulfilment · the Moirai

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Fates4 mentions

    Clouds (Greek) · Protrepticus (Greek) · Nemean (Greek) · Isthmean (Greek)

    O Fates, breaking the wheels of my horses!
    clouds

    in the texts

    BirdsClassical · Greek

    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.
    birds

    CloudsClassical · Greek

    The goddesses of destiny blamed by Amynias for breaking the wheels of his chariot.

    O Fates, breaking the wheels of my horses!
    clouds

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    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.
    protrepticus

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    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;
    chapter 1

    IsthmeanClassical · Greek

    The three goddesses of destiny, entreated alongside Clotho to hear the honoree's prayer.

    And I entreat Clotho, throned on high, and her sister Fates, to hear my friend’s prayers for fame.
    chapter 6

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    The goddesses of destiny, described as seated beside Eleithuia.

    Eleithuia, seated beside the deep-thinking Fates, hear me, creator of offspring, child of Hera great in strength.
    chapter 7

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Goddesses of destiny present at the founding rite of the Olympic games.

    But in this rite of first birth the Fates stood close by, and the one who alone puts genuine truth to the test,
    chapter 10

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The goddesses of destiny, invoked by Jason to avert kin-strife.

    May the Fates withdraw if there is any hatred between members of the same family, which blots out reverence.
    chapter 4