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The Greek Myth of the Fates' Prophecy
A TED-Ed retelling of a Greek myth featuring the three Fates — Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos — the shadowy goddesses who spun, measured, and cut the thread of every mortal life, and the strange prophecy they gave about Prince Meleager.
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