Fate and necessity
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
fate · necessity · destined · the Fates
in the texts
Helen
The idea that necessity and destined fate override the will of both mortals and gods, invoked to explain Helen and Menelaos's escape and the play's resolution.
And necessity took her away.
And what was expected has not been fulfilled;
For it was ordained that Helen should live in your house up to the present time;
Iphigenia in Tauris
The idea of an inescapable, predetermined course of suffering governing the lives of Iphigenia, Orestes, and their family.
we must let fate alone.
But I am dedicated to necessity, which must be kept.
from the beginning the Fates attendant on my birth directed a hard upbringing for me, wooed by Hellenes, the first-born child in the home, whom the unhappy daughter of Leda, by my father’s fault, bore as a victim and a sacrifice not joyful, she brought me up as an offering.