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Greek See also:mythology, the personification of criminal folly, the daughter of See also:Zeus and See also:Eris (Strife). She misled even Zeus to take a hasty See also:oath, whereby Heracles became subject to Eurystheus. Zeus thereupon See also:cast her by the See also:hair out of See also:Olympus, , whither she did not return, but remained on See also:earth, working evil and See also:mischief (Iliad, xix. 91). She is followed by the Litae (Prayers), the old and crippled daughters of Zeus, who are able to repair the evil done by her (Iliad, ix. 502). In later times Ate is regarded as the avenger of See also:sin (See also:Sophocles, See also:Antigone, 614, 625). See J. See also:Girard, Le Sentiment religieux en Gr?ce (1869) ; J. F. See also:Scherer, De Graecorum See also:Ales Notione atque See also:Indole (1858) ; E. Berch, Bedeutung der Ate bei Aeschylos (1876); C.

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Lehrs, Populare Aufsatze aus dem Alterthum (1875) ; L. See also:Schmidt, See also:Die Ethik der See also:alien Griechen (1882).

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