Adrasteia
One thing I truly love about ancient literature is finding little bits that were common knowledge amongst intellect at the time, but don't exist in modern education. Adrasteia was mentioned, literally, by Plotinus, in the second tractate of his Third Ennead; literally meaning: by definition: "inescapable" ("the Inevadable[sic] Retribution", via 1952 translation), not the mythological nymph, and was presented as... well... karma, basically: "We cannot but recognize from what we observe in this universe that some such principle of order prevails throughout the entire of existence--the minutest of things a tributary to the vast total."
Fitting match of image to text.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought upon seeing the image was the Three Fates.
But Greek mythology is filled with semi-divine female trios. The Furies of who you wrote. The three Goddesses who surprised Paris. Trios of seductive nymphs, especially in Romantic paintings ;)