Editing Adrasteia (section)

==Cult==
Adrasteia was the goddess of "inevitable fate",<ref>Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 p. 499]; Munn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 p. 333].</ref> representing "pressing necessity", and the inescapability of punishment.<ref>Graf, [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/adrastea-e103890?s.num=276&s.rows=100&s.start=200 s.v. Adrastea] ("[Adrasteia] is understood as 'pressing necessity', as the demands of fate (Aesch. PV 936), as iron law (Pl. Phdr. 248cd), but above all as inescapable punishment"); Munn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 p. 333] ("Adrasteia ... represents the inescapability of justice, however administered. ... Adrasteia, the "Relentless One," was destiny or doom, the fate in store for all, for better or worse.").</ref> She had a cult at [[Cyzicus]] (with nearby temple), and on the [[Mount Ida (Turkey)|Phrygian Mount Ida]].<ref>Graf, [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/adrastea-e103890?s.num=276&s.rows=100&s.start=200 "Adrastea"]; Hasluck, [https://books.google.com/books?id=McggyWzrvowC&pg=PA220 p. 220]; Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 p. 499]. For Cyzicus see [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:12.8.11 12.8.11], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:13.1.13 13.1.13] (which reports "a temple of Adrasteia near Cyzicus"), for Mount Ida, see [[Aeschylus]], ''Niobe'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.167.xml fr. 158 Radt] [= [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:12.8.21 12.8.21]].</ref> Adrasteia was also the object of public worship in Athens from at least as early as 429 BC.<ref>Parker, pp. 172, 195, 197; Fries, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QyzoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 p. 246].</ref> Her name appears in the "Accounts of the Treasurers of the Other Gods", associated with the [[Thrace|Thracian]] goddess [[Bendis]], with whom she seems to have shared a treasury or accounts, indicating that in Athens her cult was supported by public funds.<ref>Parker, p. 195; Graf, [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/adrastea-e103890?s.num=276&s.rows=100&s.start=200 "Adrastea"]; ''[[Inscriptiones Graecae]]'' I<sup>3</sup> [https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/395?&bookid=4&location=7 383.142&ndash;143]; cf. I<sup>3</sup> [https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/381?&bookid=4&location=7 369.67].</ref>

Adrasteia was also worshipped, together with Nemesis, at [[Kos]].<ref>Munn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 p. 333 n. 63]; Hasluck, [https://books.google.com/books?id=McggyWzrvowC&pg=PA220 p. 220]; Graf, [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/adrastea-e103890?s.num=276&s.rows=100&s.start=200 "Adrastea"]; Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 p. 499]; Paton and Hicks, [https://archive.org/details/inscriptionsofco00patouoft/page/52/mode/2up pp. 51&ndash;52, no. 29.9].</ref> The 2nd-century geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], reports seeing a statue of Adrasteia in a temple of Apollo, Artemis, and Leto at [[Cirrha]], near [[Delphi]].<ref>Munn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 p. 333 n. 63]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.37.8 10.37.8].</ref>