Necessity
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Necessity the deity
fate · must · necessity · compelled · constraint · ordained
in the texts
Philoctetes
Necessity is the pressure of fate, oaths, military need, divine timing, and endurance that constrains the characters.
For when fate decreed that Achilles should die—
But I have been slowly schooled by necessity to endure misery.
You have sailed to Troy under no oath to any man, nor under any constraint.
Symposium
Personified/abstract force blamed by Agathon for the primordial violence among the gods, contrasted with Love's peaceable rule.
though aforetime, as I began by saying, there were many strange doings among the gods, as legend tells, because of the dominion of Necessity.
I say he is youngest of the gods and ever young, while those early dealings with the gods which Hesiod and Parmenides relate, I take to have been the work of Necessity, not of Love, if there is any truth in those stories.