The Gods

"Very important but assigned to no abode whether in heaven or on earth were The Fates, Moirae in Greek, Parcae in Latin, who, Hesiod says, give to men at birth evil and good to have. They were three, Clotho, the Spinner, who spun the thread of life; Lachesis, the Disposer of Lots, who assigned to each man his destiny; Atropos, she who could not be turned, who carried "the abhorred shears" and cut the thread at death."


This paragraph stuck out to me, because I remembered the Hercules movie that included The Fates. In my mind, they seemed a lot more frightening in the movie than they actually were. The movie, Hercules, was inaccurate, but good in the sense it told some of Greek mythology the correct way. The Fates in the movie each shared one eye, so in my mind, the writers of this film mixed The Fates with The Graiae, because those are the women that shared the one eye, not The Fates. I think that the movie was more interesting this way, but I also wonder why the writers didn't just write the mythology the correct way. The Graiae, the one eye sharing sisters, I think were just a group of sisters that writers of Hercules just wanted something to join The Fates with. Weird, but at the same time, interesting.