Lachesis (mythology)
Lachesis ( Greek Λάχεσις Lachesis , German , Zuteilerin ' ) is in Greek mythology the middle of the three Fates . Your job is to measure the length of the thread of life that is spun by her sister Klotho and cut by Atropos .
According to Hesiod , Lachesis was a daughter of Zeus and Themis . Elsewhere in the theogony , however, the goddesses of fate (Moiren) are called children of the Nyx ("night").
Its equivalent in Roman mythology was Decima (the 'tithe').
literature
- Magdalena Schmidt : Lachesis. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 1, Stuttgart 1924, Sp. 341.
Web links
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Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1:13
- ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 901-906
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 217f