Editing Ananke (section)

{{Short description|Ancient Greek goddess of necessity}}
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[[File:Ananke by Platone.jpg|thumb|Ananke as represented by a modern illustration of [[Plato]]'s ''[[The Republic (Plato)|Republic]]''.]]
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In [[ancient Greek religion]], '''Ananke''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|n|æ|ŋ|k|iː}}; {{langx|grc|Ἀνάγκη}}), from the common noun {{lang|grc|[[wiktionary:ἀνάγκη|ἀνάγκη]]}} ("force, constraint, necessity"), is the [[Orphism (religion)|Orphic]] [[personification]] of inevitability, compulsion, and [[metaphysical necessity|necessity]]. She is customarily depicted as holding a [[Spindle (textiles)|spindle]]. One of the [[Greek primordial deities]], the births of Ananke and her brother and consort, [[Chronos]] (the [[personification of Time|personification of time]], not to be confused with the [[Titans|Titan]] [[Cronus]]), were thought to mark the division between the eon of [[Chaos (cosmogony)|Chaos]] and the beginning of the [[cosmos]]. Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance. Mortals and gods alike respected her power and paid her homage. She is also considered the mother of [[Moirai|the Fates]], hence she is thought to be the only being to overrule their decisions<ref name="Abril">{{cite book |editor=Abril Cultural |title=Dicionário de Mitologia Greco-Romana |year=1973 |publisher=Editora Victor Civita |pages=134 |language=pt |oclc=45781956 }}</ref> (according to some sources, excepting [[Zeus]] also). According to Daniel Schowalter and Steven Friesen, she and the Fates "are all sufficiently tied to early Greek mythology to make their Greek origins likely."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schowalter |first1=Daniel N. |last2=Friesen |first2=Steven J. |title=Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches Issue 53 of Harvard theological studies |date=2005 |publisher=Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School |isbn=9780674016606 |page=147 |url=https://vdocuments.site/urban-religion-in-roman-corinth-interdisciplinary-approaches-harvard-theological.html}}</ref>

The ancient Greek traveller [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] wrote of a temple in ancient [[Corinth]] where the goddesses Ananke and [[Bia (mythology)|Bia]] (meaning force, violence or violent haste) were worshiped together in the same shrine. Ananke is also frequently identified or associated with [[Aphrodite]], especially [[Aphrodite Urania]], the representation of abstract celestial love; the two were considered to be related, as relatively un[[anthropomorphise]]d powers that dictated the course of life.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Papaioannou |first1=Sophia |last2=Serafim |first2=Andreas |last3=Demetriou |first3=Kyriakos |title=Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome |date=25 October 2021 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-069970-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LBIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT133 |access-date=10 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ivanov|first1=Vi͡acheslav Ivanovich|last2=Bird|first2=Robert|last3=Wachtel|first3=Michael|title=Selected Essays|date=2001|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=9780810115224|page=154|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ3YyoZFBZ8C&pg=PA154}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Portmann|first1=Adolf|last2=Ritsema|first2=Rudolf|title=Avenir Et Devenir Des Normes|date=Jan 1, 1977|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=9789004048805|page=100|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8kUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA100}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Stroud|first1=Ronald|title=The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Inscriptions XVIII.6|date=Sep 30, 2013|publisher=American School of Classical Studies at Athens|isbn=9781621390138|page=84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxdDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84}}</ref> Her Roman counterpart is '''Necessitas''' ("necessity").<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|entry=Ananke|title=Brill's New Pauly|last=Dräger|first=Paul|year=2006|doi=10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e119980}}</ref>