ANANKE ('Av6,7K7i), Necessity or Fate personified. She is fairly prominent in posthomeric literature and theological specu lation, particularly Orphic, but is definitely known to emerge into cult only at Corinth, where she was worshipped with Bia (Might, Force); see Pausanias, ii., 4, 6; there are one or two faint and dubious traces of her cult elsewhere. In literature, she is asso ciated with Adrasteia, the Moirai, and similar deities. In Italy she does not appear to have been worshipped at all ; the famous description of Necessitas (Ananke) in Horace, Carm. i., 35, which makes her attendant on Tyche, is purely literary.
See Roscher's Lexikon, arts. Ananke, Necessitas.