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Greek mythology, the personification of criminal folly, the daughter of Zeus and Eris (Strife) . She misled even Zeus to take a hasty oath, whereby Heracles became subject to Eurystheus . Zeus thereupon cast her by the hair out of Olympus, , whither she did not return, but remained on earth, working evil and 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 sin (Sophocles, Antigone, 614, 625) . See J . Girard, Le Sentiment religieux en Gr?ce (1869) ; J . F . Scherer, De Graecorum Ales Notione atque Indole (1858) ; E . Berch, Bedeutung der Ate bei Aeschylos (1876); C .

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