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What does Ananke mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Ananke? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.
  2. (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.
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His soul tried to escape the oppression of this cosmic mechanism, and to leave the slavery of Ananke.
Shakespeare settles his playgoers, and also enhances the fatality of the plot, giving it something of the tense, unalterable ananke of the Greek myths.
Still it is with some such definite decision that he enters the kingdom of Ananke, the goddess of Necessity.
As I have shared with other students, in classical Greek, ananke means destiny.
This divinity is sometimes identified with Tyche, sometimes with Ananke.

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