Até

Até, according to Homer, the daughter of Zeus—of Eris, as Hesiod says—was a vengeful goddess, ever attending dysnomia, or transgression of law, though she herself prompted men to such. She was banished from Olympus by Zeus, whom she had incited to take an oath of which he subsequently repented. She then travelled to and fro over the earth with great rapidity, always intent on exercising a pernicious influence upon mankind. But her steps were followed by the goddesses Litai ('prayers'), benevolent daughters of Zeus, who healed those who had been afflicted by Ate. The tragic writers describe Ate as the goddess of retribution. Their representations almost identify her with Nemesis and Erinnys. Of the greater tragedians she is most prominent in Æschylus, and least in Euripides, in whom the idea of Dikê ('justice') is more fully developed.