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The Fates

Shall we link Lachesis and Clotho to this page and rename it as The Fates —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew Cantrell (talk • contribs) 23:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

no 144.129.16.98 (talk) 16:47, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that article already exists under Moirae. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.156.66.253 (talk) 06:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No references at all?

I was just wondering where the quoted text "abhorred shears" came from? Fillup (talk) 02:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaning up "In Popular Culture"

I feel, given the fact that the Fates are an important influence in literature, a much-trimmed down version could suffice in place of the potentially OR interpretation of Walden. The video game references should probably go. I'm going to move the literary stuff here and get rid of the rest. As an aside, atropine gets its name from the plant it was derived from (Atropa belladonna). The genus Atropa was named before the isolation of the ingredient (atropine) responsible for the plant's toxicity, and thus the plant - not the chemical - was named because of its potential lethality. Sepia officinalis (talk) 02:08, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In Literature

In the "Sounds" chapter of "Walden," Henry David Thoreau says that in building railroads and locomotives, "We have constructed a fate, an Atropos that never turns aside." By this he means to refer to the literal fact that trains are bound to their tracks, but also to suggest that America's destiny is determined in part by its having taken the path of technological innovation represented by the development of the railroad.

Atropos is referenced in an Emily Dickinson poem (#11 in "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" ed. Thomas H. Johnson, Little Brown and Co. 1960 Twelfth Printing). Atropos, along with Clotho and Lachesis, is the name of one of the "Doctors" (playing a similar role to the Moirae) in the Stephen King novel, Insomnia.

The anticholinergic drug atropine is named after Atropos, due in part to its potentially fatal nature.

Atropos, along with Clotho and Lachesis, is one of three personifications of Fate in Piers Anthony's fantasy novel "With a Tangled Skein," part of his "Incarnations of Immortality" series.

Used as a book title "Hornblower and the Atropos" by C. S. Forester , one of a series of novels about naval war during the Napoleonic era , Atropos is a fictional sloop of war , a three masted warship with a single gun deck carrying about 20 guns . The Royal (British) Navy has a long tradition of giving warships classical + mythological names , as do several other navies . In Forester's book the ship's figurehead has been carved brandishing her shears . C._S._Forester

Zeus their father?

They are children of the night (Nyx). The Titans and the next generation (Zeus) came surely after Nyx. It seems that they are fatherless. See the Greek god bloodline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods Plz provide a source for the Zeus is father of the Moirai statement. Schilkschi (talk) 14:07, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Atrophy

Surely her name is the source of the medical term for wasting or death of muscles etc ? Atrophy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.145.195.154 (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was rather intrigued to learn that in the syllabic text of Linear B, the Greek word anthropos, "man", is rendered a-to-ro-po-s(e).

Nuttyskin (talk) 20:29, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Aisa

What Fate is related to the pre greek Aisa? The "Origin" section does not mention it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.147.196.161 (talk) 09:55, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No description

Greek texts have surely has some sort of description following the theorised physical appearances of the three Moirai, but where can I find reliable sources? Your Local Researcher (talk) 20:28, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]