Necessitas

"Necessity." The personification of necessity, the Roman equivalent Ananke.

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Iconography

In art Necessitas is armed with a nail (clavus), wherewith to rivet irrevocably the decrees of Fate.1

References

Notes

  1. Horace. Carmen Saeculare, i, 35.17, 18; iii, 24.5.

Source

  • Roscher, W. H. (1965). Ausfuhrliches Lexikon der Greichischen und Romischen Mythologie. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 3, 1:70-72.