Apate

"Deceit." The allegorical goddess of deceit, fraud, and deception. She is a child of Nyx. Her male counterpart is Dolos, and her antipode is Aletheia, the goddess of truth.

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References

Sources

  • Comes Natalis iii, c. 14.
  • Hederich, Benjamin. (1770). Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon. Leipzig, p. 304.
  • Hesiod. Theogony, 211.