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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. She also led both what i ate wednesday and men to rash and inconsiderate actions and to suffering.

Até also refers to an action performed by a hero that leads to their death or downfall. Atë was represented as the daughter of Eris, the goddess of strife, through parthenogenesis. Like base metal beneath the touchstone’s rub, when tested he shows the blackness of his grain . No god listens to his prayers. The Bibliotheca claims that when thrown down by Zeus, Atë landed on a peak in Phrygia called by her name. There Ilus later, following a cow, founded the city of Ilion, known as Troy.

This flourish is chronologically at odds with Homer’s dating of Atë’s fall. In the Argonautica, Hera says that “even the gods are sometimes visited by Atë”. According to Nonnus, at Hera’s instigation Atë persuades the boy Ampelus whom Dionysus passionately loves, to impress Dionysus by riding on a bull from which Ampelus subsequently falls and breaks his neck. Among the tragic writers, Ate appears in a different light: she avenges evil deeds and inflicts just punishments upon the offenders and their posterity, so that her character here is almost the same as that of Nemesis and Erinnys. A fragment from Empedocles refers to the “Meadow of Atë”, which probably signifies the mortal world. In the play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare introduces the goddess Atë as an invocation of vengeance and menace. Love’s Labours Lost Birone jeers “Pompey is moved.

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