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Fate

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Fate
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Source-established personification; no divine kind is inferred.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

4
·Reported

Patroclus says Fate and Apollo overpowered him, names Euphorbus among the mortal agents, and calls Hector third in his killing.

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Fate and the son of Leto have overpowered me, and among mortal men Euphorbus; you are yourself third only in the killing of me.
·Direct

Fate is represented dragging a freshly wounded man, an unwounded man, and a corpse by the heel, with her robe bedraggled in blood.

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fell Fate who was dragging three men after her, one with a fresh wound, and the other unwounded, while the third was dead, and she was dragging him along by his heel: and her robe was bedrabbled in men’s blood
·Reported

Agamemnon says Fate was among the powers that struck him mad when he took Achilles’s awarded prize.

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Jove, and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad when we were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the meed that had been awarded to him
·Hypothetical

Xanthus foretells that stern fate, together with heaven, will destroy Achilles.

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heaven and stern fate that will destroy you

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Direct
Fate and the son of Leto have overpowered me
·Reported
Jove, and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad
·Direct
death with the strong hand of fate are already close beside you

Passage preview

Book 16 · Passage 52

Then, as the life ebbed out of you, you answered, O knight Patroclus: ‘Hector, vaunt as you will, for Jove the son of Saturn and Apollo have vouchsafed you victory; it is they who have vanquished me so easily, and they who have stripped the armour from my shoulders; had twenty such men as you attacked me, all of them would have fallen before my spear. Fate and the son of Leto have overpowered me, and among mortal men Euphorbus; you are yourself third only in the killing of me. I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aeacus.’