Atropos

Atropos (Greek Ἄτροπος " the inevitable ") is the oldest of the three Fates in Greek mythology. As a destroyer, their task was to cut the thread of life, which was spun by her sisters Clotho and Lachesis measured. She chose the manner of death of a person. According to Hesiod, although Atropos was of small stature, but the rank she stood high above her two sisters.

According to Hesiod Atropos was a daughter of Zeus and Themis. Elsewhere in the Theogony the Fates ( Moirai ) Children of Nyx are called ( "Night" ), however.

In Plato, the Moirai daughters of Ananke, of fate. They wear white robes and singing in harmony with the sirens. This Atropos sings of those things that will be (of the future).

At the birth of the hero Meleager Atropos plays the role of the bad fairy in Fairy Tales: The Three Fates appear at the birth of the boy, singing his fate, Clotho sings his gallantry, Lachesis his bravery, Atropos but takes a look at a piece of wood, which on the stove is and predicts that the boy will live only until this log is burned. His mother Althaea rips out of the log from the fire and bury it deep in the earth. As Meleager makes a committed habitual Sin later, his mother burns the log and he dies.

Their equivalent in Roman mythology was Morta.