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.
You have sailed to Troy under no oath to any man, nor under any constraint.
Surely he toils by the plan of some god so that he may not bend against Troy the invincible arrows divine, until the time be fulfilled at which, men say, by those arrows Troy is fated to fall.
But I have been slowly schooled by necessity to endure misery.
Symposium
Personified/abstract force blamed by Agathon for the primordial violence among the gods, contrasted with Love's peaceable rule.
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.
though aforetime, as I began by saying, there were many strange doings among the gods, as legend tells, because of the dominion of Necessity.