Lachesis
Generation VI · The apportioner · The Olympians · Heroes & Monsters
Second of the Moirai, Lachesis measures out the thread her sister spins, allotting to every life its exact length and portion of fortune. Plato gave her the most solemn of duties in his vision of Er: it is before Lachesis that souls awaiting rebirth choose the lives they will lead, and her lots, once drawn, cannot be exchanged. Hesiod elsewhere also names the Moirai daughters of Nyx alone — this archive follows his Zeus-and-Themis account.
One of 90 people of The Olympians in this archive. The gods who took Olympus from the Titans and kept it.
One of 77 people of Heroes & Monsters in this archive. The mortal and half-mortal children of the gods, and the creatures born beside them.
Line of descent: Chaos → Gaia → Uranus → Cronus → Zeus → Lachesis.
Parents
Siblings
- Aglaea (half)
- Apollo (half)
- Ares (half)
- Artemis (half)
- Athena (half)
- Atropos
- Calliope (half)
- Clio (half)
- Clotho
- Dike
- Dionysus (half)
- Eileithyia (half)
- Eirene
- Erato (half)
- Eunomia
- Euphrosyne (half)
- Euterpe (half)
- Hebe (half)
- Helen (half)
- Heracles (half)
- Hermes (half)
- Melpomene (half)
- Minos (half)
- Persephone (half)
- Perseus (half)
- Polydeuces (half)
- Polyhymnia (half)
- Rhadamanthys (half)
- Terpsichore (half)
- Thalia (half)
- Thalia (half)
- Urania (half)