Klotho

Eldest of the three Moirai, the Fates who apportion every mortal life: Klotho spins the thread, Lachesis measures it, Atropos cuts it. Hesiod gives them twice over — once as fatherless daughters of Night (Hes. *Theog.* 217–222), and again as daughters of Zeus and Themis, sisters of the Seasons, to whom Zeus gave the highest honour, the givers of good and ill to men (Hes. *Theog.* 904–906). In Plato's myth of Er the three sit at the cosmic Spindle of Necessity, their hands on the whorls of the turning heavens (Pl. *Rep.* 10.617c).