Editing Moros (section)

== Mythology ==
In ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'', the titular [[Titan (mythology)|Titan]] suggests that he gave humanity the spirit [[Elpis (mythology)|Elpis]], the personification of hope, in order to help them ignore the inevitability of Moros.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, line 244 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg003.perseus-eng1:244-264 |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> He is also referred to as "the all-destroying god, who, even in the [[Greek underworld|realm of Death]], does not set his victim free,"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, line 407 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg001.perseus-eng1:407-417 |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> further supporting his image as representative of the inevitability of death and suffering.

=== Aeschylus' account ===
Aeschylus, Fragment 199 (from Plutarch, Life and Poety of Homer 157) (trans. Weir Smyth):

"A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom (''peprômenon moros'')."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perrin|first=Bernadotte|title=Plutarch's Lives|publisher=Harvard University Press.|year=1959–67|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref>

The word ''moros'' is not personified here but the passage provides a clear picture of the concept.

=== Christianity ===
Along with [[Thanatos]], he is associated as the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|rider of the pale horse]] in the [[Apocalypse]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Apocalypse of John |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Revelation |work=The King James Bible |access-date=2023-11-05}}</ref><ref>{{bibleverse|Rev|6:8|SBLGNT;MOUNCE}}</ref>