Fate

Role: personified deity · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 19

Life events

• Fate carries off Polynices, while Eteocles meets his just end.(Book 5 · Chapter 19)
  • With: Polynices Eteocles Doom
  • “Polynices was carried off by Fate, and that Eteocles’ end was just.”
• Olen identifies Ilithyia with Fate, declares her older than Cronos, and calls her Eulinus.(Book 8 · Chapter 21)
  • With: Olen Ilithyia Cronos Eulinus
  • “But the Lycian Olen, who was earlier than Homer, and wrote Hymns to Ilithyia and for the Delians, says that she was the same as Fate, and older than Cronos. And he calls her Eulinus.”

Book 5 · Chapter 19

• with Polynices (interaction) “Polynices was carried off by Fate”

Book 8 · Chapter 21

• with Ilithyia (Ilithyia is identified as Fate.) “says that she was the same as Fate, and older than Cronos.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.