Necessity. Adrasteia existed with Chronus (Time) at the beginning, before the world was created. Another name for the personification of "Fate" or "Necessity" is Ananke.
Like Chronus, Adrasteia was portrayed as giant serpent or dragon, but as a female principle of Necessity, just as Chronus was a male principle of infinite Time. Adrasteia was the mother of Chaos, Erebus and Aether.
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Personification of fate or necessity. See Moerae (Fates) and the Orphic Adrasteia .
Before the world and the gods were created, there was nothing but Time which the Greeks called Chronus or Khronos, and Necessity who was named Adrasteia (Ananke). This was a period called the Unaging Time because time was unlimited and indetermina...
Goddesses of fate. The Fates or Moerae (Moirai) were known by Hesiod as the three daughters of Nyx ("Night"): Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. In later accounts they were known as daughters of Zeus and Themis , and possibly sisters of the Seasons (Ho...
Eurynome (Εὐρυνόμη) was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys ; she was one of the 3000 Oceanids. By Zeus, Eurynome was the mother of the Graces , and possibly of Asopus, the river god in Sicyon. However, Asopus was usually referred to as her brother...
Goddess of the night. Nyx was identified by the Romans as Nox, and was often identified as just Night. Nyx was born together with Erebus , Gaea , Tartarus, and Eros ("Love"), out of Chaos. By her brother Erebus, Nyx bore Aether ("Upper Air") and H...
Long after the "beginning of time", the void known as Chaos came into existence in the universe. Out of Chaos, or together with it, came Gaea ("Earth"), Tartarus and Eros ("Love"). Without a mate, Chaos bore Nyx ("Night") and Erebus ("Darkness"). ...
Erebus was born together with Nyx , Gaea , Tartarus, and Eros ("Love"), out of Chaos . With his sister Nyx, Erebus was the father of Aether ("Upper Air") and Hemera ("Day"). See Creation, Theogony of Hesiod . Apart from the part he played in the C...
The Goddess of All Things. Eurynome was the mother goddess and ultimate Creator goddess. Eurynome was possibly also a sun and moon goddess. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, he wrote in the Argonautica that the first being was the goddess Eurynom...
Titaness of justice. Themis was the daughter of Uranus and Gaea . Like her mother, she was known as the earth-goddess. She later became known as the goddess of order and justice. Themis was the second wife of Zeus . Themis became the mother of man...
Goddess of folly and moral blindness. She was merely a personification of folly. Ate (Ἄτη) was the daughter of Eris (Strife). Agamemnon blamed Ate for his quarrel with Achilles . Zeus threw her out of heaven (Olympus) for aiding Hera so that Eurys...