Battling Fate - Greek Mythology

The authoritative presence in Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound was Fate. Some might argue that it was Zeus, but in fact it was very much Fate that had control, which Prometheus himself knew. Zeus, like his father, Chronos, knew his fate of demise and tried to save himself. It is apparent that despite Fate’s inevitability, many Greek heroes chose to fight it rather than give up. Fate predicted in Oedipus the King that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother, but both he and his parents fought to prevent this from happening. Teiresias, the blind prophet, told Oedipus that he would not want to know the truth in the end, and tries to withhold the vital information he knows. Teiresias also warned Pentheus in The Bacchae to heed Dionysus’s new religion and not to anger him for this new god will be great in the future, but his advice falls on deaf ears.
Zeus tried to battle Fate by demanding that he gets things his way. His father, Chronos was told that one of his child...