Editing Adrasteia (section)

===Nemesis===
Although apparently of independent origin, Adrasteia also came to be associated with [[Nemesis]], the goddess of divine retribution.<ref>Farnell, [https://archive.org/details/thecultsofthegre02farnuoft/page/n89 p. 499]; Golann, pp. 43&ndash;44; Munn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 p. 333]; Fries, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QyzoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 246]&ndash;[https://books.google.com/books?id=QyzoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 247], on lines 342&ndash;3; Smith, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dadrasteia-bio-2 s.v. Adrasteia 2].</ref> Nemesis and Adrasteia were worshipped together 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/50/mode/2up pp. 51&ndash;52, no. 29.9].</ref> In the fifth century BC the two goddesses were often identified, with Adrasteia becoming merely an epithet of Nemesis.<ref>West, p. 195 ("In the fifth century Adrastea is equivalent to Nemesis"); Munn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8W8lDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA333 p. 333]; Golann, p. 43; Smyth, ''Prometheus Bound'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg003.perseus-eng1:907-943  936, n. 2]; Murray, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg019.perseus-eng2:342-350 note to ''Rhesus'' 342]; Smith, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dadrasteia-bio-2 s.v. Adrasteia 2].</ref> The explicit identification of the two goddesses is first found in the writings of the late fifth-century BC poet and grammarian [[Antimachus]] of [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]].<ref>Fries, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QyzoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 246]&ndash;[https://books.google.com/books?id=QyzoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA247 247], on lines 342&ndash;3; Golann, p. 43; Hornum, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-innYh2yO48C&pg=PA7 p. 7]; [[Strabo]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:13.1.13 13.1.13] [= [[Antimachus]], fr. 131 Matthews = 53 Wyss]. Compare with [[Aeschylus]] (?), ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg003.perseus-grc1:907-943 936]; [[Euripides]], ''[[Rhesus (play)|Rhesus]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-rhesus/2003/pb_LCL495.391.xml 342&ndash;343], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-rhesus/2003/pb_LCL495.401.xml 468&ndash;473]; [[Plato]], ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plato_philosopher-republic/2013/pb_LCL237.451.xml 451a]; [[Demosthenes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/demosthenes-orations_xxv_aristogeiton_i/1935/pb_LCL299.537 25.37]; [[Menander]], ''Perikeiromene'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/menander_comic_poet-perikeiromene_girl_her_hair_cut_short/1997/pb_LCL459.403.xml 304]; ''[[Greek Anthology]]'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_anthology_9/1917/pb_LCL084.225.xml 9.405], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_anthology_12/1918/pb_LCL085.365.xml 12.300]; [[Ammianus Marcellinus]], ''History'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/amminanus_marcellinus-history/1939/pb_LCL300.103.xml 14.11.25].</ref>